In keeping with Manhatten’s request to pare down the volume, I offer this site. It’s got a comprehensive list of EVERY Top 40 song between 1930’s to 1999, along with links to the song lyrics.
Every few weeks, we get a request for lyrics or song titles. Hopefully I’ve titled this thread in such a way as to have it hit when someone searches the Archives, and can get an answer without posting a thread first.
It’s a Cool Site to boot ( small pun intended).
Enjoy 
Cartooniverse
Just tried your link and got a “Sorry, you don’t have permission to enter this site” screen. What did I do wrong?
I just clicked the active link up there, took me right to it. Didja pay your Local I.P. bill this month? 
Cartooniverse
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /~pfilho/ on this server.
Apache/1.3.14 Server at http://www.summer.com.br Port 80
(My ISP bill is paid automatically.)
It’s the same from here. I use BellSouth.net
Q
No Shit?? And, Boris, no offense, just jestin’. Well, this sucks, I try to offer a very comprehensive site that nobody can get to??? Manny, go ahead and kill this thread, it’s obviously not working- I can link to that site. I found it using a search engine- god knows which one, NOT AOL’s- but I am on AOL now, and can link into it just fine
I’ll try to find out why, ok?
Cartooniverse
This is what you’re looking for:
Explain why an illegal enterprise shouldn’t be shut down.
Do you mean the famous International Lyrics Server at http://www.lyrics.ch/index.htm that’s still going quite happily?
It may be still going, ** MattK ** but it’s a pale shadow of its former self. For instance, if you want to know the lyrics to Dylan’s “Simple Twist of Fate” all you can find out from this site is that it’s available on “Blood on The Tracks” and also as “Non-Album Tracks”. So there’s some limited use if you want to know which CD to order, but that’s about the size of it. Thanks for the link,though, and to ** OneChance ** for the link to Lyrics World that actually works from the wilds of Oregon. Also a profound hat tip to ** Cartooniverse ** for setting the whole thing in play.
*If I were King of the World I would roam my kingdom in rags, incognito, dropping fortunes onto the people who are nice with no special reason to be nice, and having my troops lop off the heads of the mean, small, embittered little bastards who try to inflate their self-esteem by stomping on yours. I would st art the lopping among post-office employees, bank tellers, bus drivers, and pharmacists. I would go on to checkout clerks, bellboys, prowl-car cops, telephone operators, and U.S. Embassy clerks. By God, there would be so many heads rolling here and there, the world would look like a berserk bowling alley. Meyer says this shows a tad of hostility. —John D. MacDonald *
Hey, you’re welcome I must admit, every time I’re read a post here in the last day or two where someone couldn’t get to that site I showed, I did go and click- with success.
NOW- I cannot go, I get the same 403 error that Hometown, BorisB and Quasi got. Okay, I’m confused. However, one of our TM DID come up with a better link, so I’m like 11% vindicated here <sob>.
Cartooniverse
Maybe your browser was showing you a cached copy of the page?
Arjuna34
I’m not a lawyer but I think there would have been several good strategies which that site could have used, and I’m surprised they lost in the courts.
To begin with, I think we could say that in this case it was demonstrably true that the end users of the lyrics were mostly listeners who either owned the CD’s or had been listening to the music via the radio or other legal channels, and wondering, “What the hell IS that lyric!”. They weren’t usually songwriters looking to steal lyrics, or even bar bands looking to perform cover songs while evading royalty payments.
Then there’s is the argument that the creators of http://www.lyric.ch were violating the copyright laws as they profited through their advertisers. But I think this argument, too, can be refuted. The service which attracted paying advertisers to their site was not the creation of the lyrics per se, but merely making lyrics available to the public well after, in most cases, the point when the music had been distributed and paid for by CD and tape buyers, and
radio sponsors.
Finally, you have to keep in mind that the role of sheet music–in some cases the only channel through which lyrics are legally available–has diminished tremendously since the time when the copyright laws were conceived. I don’t think
it was practicable even to obtain the sheet music for most of the lyrics which the site was providing.
In sum, I think any damage to the publishers was so negligible that to curtail the site’s activity was like using a sledge hammer to kill a gnat.
Well, for ONCE I actually got a quick answer from a Web Master. I wrote to the person who runs that site that became inaccessable to us all, and he suggested we try
His New Address For Lyrics from 1930-1999.
What the hell.
Cartooniverse