E-Mailing to Dick is a good way, but all lyrics posted in the forum are reviewed and considered for inclusion in the database. If you post the lyrics in the forum, just make sure the "Subject" title of the message has the word ADD in it (not necessarily the thread title - just the "subject") - the "search" engine for the Mudcat searches the subject line, so that's the best place to have that ADD word. If your lyrics are later marked with a birdie ( ^^ ), that means the lyrics have been "harvested" and are being considered for inclusion. If they are marked with a three-winged birdie ( ^^^ ) that third, redundant wing, means that the song is already in the database (although possibly not that exact version).
It's nice if you post lyrics in the Digital Tradition format - title in ALL CAPS, and the (songwriter name in parentheses) in the second line, with any explanatory notes at the end of the song. It's also nice to put your intials in ALL CAPS at the end of the lyrics, so your initials can be included in the database and people can find out who the song came from. It would be nice if you can post the tune in MIDITEXT or e-mail it to Dick or to Alan of Australia's Mudcat MIDIs click to mail to Mudcat MIDIs.
The advantage of posting songs in the forum is that they're immediately available to all of us. If you posted a song in the forum a while ago and it doesn't have a harvesting birdie, you may want to call attention to it in the Songs you've posted thread. You can pull that thread up any time by using the filter for the word "posted." You can see that many of the songs in that thread have already been birdied. If you STILL can't do blue clickies to provide a direct link to your lyrics, just give the name of the song and the name of the thread. If there are other p9osted songs you know of that haven't been birdied, go ahead an post references to them in the "posted" thread.
Hope that helps. ^^^
-Joe Offer-