Recover lyrics on iPod from cloud?

After working through a number of glitches, primarily with Apple IDs which were my own errors, I have 5500 songs in the cloud. However, the lyrics are missing, although they still appear in the libraries on my MacBook Pro and iMac. I've deleted all the local files from both computers, blessedly freeing many gigs of storage space, and in order to recover the 256k versions, which work just fine, too. The cloud files and the local files all retain the lyrics, but they are not shown on my iPod or iPhone. Not a catastrophe, but I would like the whole suite of music to be consistant across my devices, and do miss the lyrics on the portables.
Has anyone solved this and recovered the lyrics? I'm fearless at trying techniques and won't flame anyone for a recommended resolution that toasts my data. That is why I back up carefully before messing with stuff I don't understand. Am I alone in this phenomenon, or is it a bug that Apple is working on?

Hi,
Thank you very much for your suggestion.
I have tried it, but it still has not solved the problem, I'm afraid.
About half of my songs in my Nano is downloaded (shhhh!!!) and the lyrics for most of them do work fine. About 10 of them don't.
I tried comparing the information (such as Encoded with, ID3 Tags, Format or Channels) between those that work fine and those that do not, but I wasn't able to specify any differences.
Is there any more suggestion? I would be grateful.
Thanks a lot!
John

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