One question I haven't asked though… I've only been lyric-matching the first verse of the songs. The remaining verses have been set below the score. Would you prefer each verse lyric-matched in between the staffs like a church hymnal?
Lord no! We're all getting old too fast to take THAT much time! Just the first verse so it's easy to see how the tune falls on the text. I'm not having any trouble transferring the learned tune to the succeeding verses, even just on first read/hear of the MIDI and lyric.
In fact, you do not really need to add the rest of the verses below the score. It might be a help to someone who wants to play from the printout of the MIDI, but IMO anyone wanting to perfrom these is going to have their work cut out for them unless they stick with unaccompanied singing from a word-sheet, and they will have to customize the songs with a lot of lyric adaptations. They should do that work themselves-- I know I will have to!
Also, including more than the verse printed in the page image might verge on an uncomfortable copyright problem-- Dover does still have the book in print I believe, unless those were remaindered copies I saw at Elderly for about 8 bucks! The folks at DocSouth (the site with the collection posted) are very nervous about anything appearing to suggest copyright trespasses. What I am hoping they will decide to run is just a single page of links as an appendix to their existing book material, a menu by song number that you could open in a separate window while looking at the page itself, and click to play the tune.
Remember, for a lot of people, they will never see the MIDI itself, because it will tend to open itself in Windows Media Player or WinAMp. If the user is sophisticated enough to open it in a notation program, IMO they will be sophisticated enough to modify it for their own use. Thus they will have made "fair use" (IMO) of the material-- personal study and their own lyric and arrangement, so no trespass on the print version or the now-out-of-print Jerry Silverman arrangements.
Anyway that's how I hope the DocSouth people will see it.