Re: Song with two different verses, where the melody differs but in the last two measures

[Bernhard Kleine]

\skip does just what you might assume--it skips you ahead some amount. The amount you give the \skip command is arbitrary in the Lyrics context, meaning that it will ALWAYS only skip a single syllable, which is why the example uses \repeat unfold 2 { \skip 1 } in order to skip the correct number of notes in the second alternate ending. Of course you could type \skip 1 \skip 1 \skip 1 ... for as many as you need, but you decide which is more convenient.

mehrstimmigText = \lyricmode {
    Gut, dass wir ein -- an -- der ha -- ben, gut, dass wir ein -- an -- der sehn,
    Sor -- gen, Freu -- den, Krä -- fte tei -- len und auf einem We -- ge gehn.
    \repeat unfold 2 { \skip 1 }
}
mehrstimmigZwei = \lyricmode {
    Gut,  dass wir nicht uns nur ha -- ben, dass der Kreis sich nie -- mals schließt,
    und dass Gott, von dem wir re -- den,
    \repeat unfold 2 { \skip 1 \skip 1 \skip 1 }
    hier in uns -- rer Mit -- te ist.  
}
 
This is almost sufficient. The next \skip 1 is to much to the right, one eigths to much. I do not see how to tune it.
\skip 3 or \skip 2 does not work.

Do you have any idea?

Bernhard