Stewie, "the very next post" came 6 years after yours, and was probably not in the same thread (the Subject header is different) until someone moved it. And as I noted at the time the song had not made it into the DT, so it might have been hard for people to find your 1999 post in 2006.

But I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for posting the lyrics.

2581, the lyrics Stewie posted in 1999 are the lyrics I remember from the Richie Havens recording from the 1960s, so I'm not sure what you mean.