Lyrics are an important part of music, and especially music search and discovery.  Lyrics give all sorts of clues and hints about the mood, theme and content of a song.   There are a number of lyrics sites out there on the web. Unfortunately, most bombard a visitor with popups and so many advertisements that it can make one dizzy. Most don't offer any sort of web api to allow programmatic access to the data.

One site, LyricWiki,is bucking this trend. According to their home page, LyricWiki is a free site which is a single source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist without being hammered by invasive ads.

LyricWiki has a nice clean Wiki-style interface, and they provide a soap interface to their data.  They are currently providing lyrics for nearly a quarter million songs.




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