I agree, it really is anoying to find an interesting song and not be able to apreciate it fully. Tonic Sol-Fa is a recognised standard in music notation. My grandmother (who played for the silent movioes, and for dancesduring and after the war) could not read music, but played a supurb form of honkytonk based on Sol-Fa. So much published popular music from the 20's to the 70's still included this notation under the stave.

I'll see if I can find any web-sites that deal with this subject (If & when I get time).

Incidentally - Richard Robinson (Richard Robinson's Tune Book, on the web) has the right idea as sar as music goes, each piece is sent as a jpeg of the music. Good site - check it out. Unfortunately, he doesn't include any words to the tunes he collects!!