what many of us hate is not the singer herself having words..which I have to nowadays..but the group singing from words. If you have been involved with people singing from memory, or a leader singing from words..and then go somewhere they are singing laboriously from the blue book collectively, it is painful. Now, if they set it up that way and like it that way, great. More power to them. It is when they overtake a group that has started the other way and essentially impose this way that I do not like. They might not know they are imposing because no one has told them...the ones who don't like the blue book experience just don't show up past the tipping point. mg