Song Lyrics on iPod

I noticed that a some of the songs on my iPod have their lyrics also on the iPod. I was wondering how the lyrics get onto my iPod and if I could get the lyrics for other songs as well.
Thanks.
iPod Video 30gb Mac OS X (10.4.8)

With recent versions of iTunes you can add Lyrics to your songs. On each song's info screen in iTunes there is a tab for Lyrics.
You can download them as well as Album Art (Covers) with various free software available on the Internet. There are also several widgets which will do the same thing.
Check the Widgets site at www.Apple.com. You can also do a search (type in Lyrics) within VersionTracker at the following link ...
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/

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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Are the songs on your computer? Do they show up in iTunes? (I am assuming they are not). Go into My Documents-->My Music-->iTunes-->iTunes Music. See if the music is there. Is it? You could also try searching your computer for a song and see if you find one or all of them.
Also, see if you can use this to get the music back into iTunes from your iPod if the music is not on your computer...
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Once the songs are in iTunes, we need to address the chkdsk error message(s).
See this...
iPod: What to do if Windows displays an "itunes.exe - Corrupt File" message
Da Gopha: What to do if Windows displays an "iTunes.exe - Corrupt File" message
Before you restore your iPod, make sure that the music is in iTunes and works/plays without your iPod conencted.
I really don't think all the song files were deleted off of your computer. Just double check and make sure the actual files are gone.
btabz

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The lyrics are in iTunes. They do display on my iPod Touch 2g.
I did try a reset on the iPod Touch 4g, but did not fix problem.
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lekker wrote:
I can't get the word "Lyrics" to display. Is there a way to do this? I'm wondering what "Off" refers to.
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This may be a bug for all that I know but I am too cynical to believe that.
From everything that I have read, it appears as though Apple did remove the feature. What the reasons could be for that are beyond me. And I did find the paragraph that states that feature exists in the iPad. I copied this from the iPad User Guide for iOS 5. The free book that I downloaded in iBooks.
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In iTunes, have you added the lyrics to each individual song and in the lyrics tab of the song?
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If you manually mange the iPod, you need to remove the album from the iPod and then add it back again (with the lyrics)
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