Jim, you say "A book is for repetition not creativity - simple as that."

How so? How does the fact that the lyrics are on a sheet in front of you prevent you from making up your own harmonies or maybe even counterpoints (for some kinds of songs)? If people are playing instruments, how does a lyric sheet prevent musicians from throwing in their own creative licks? And how does it prevent singers from putting a lot of feeling into the song?


(OK, it's hard to read lyrics in Rise Up Singing, much less follow their chords, and pay attention to anything else such as interpreting the song, etc., but if you basically know a song but just need a lyric sheet to glance at to jog your memory occasionally, that's a horse of a different color.)

As for lyrics themselves, I'm not so sure "creative lyric recitation" is always such a good thing - any more than "creative spelling" is.   And I really don't relish "creativity" in the sense of several people making up different lyrics and singing them simultaneously.