First Word in Karaoke; Verses

[Mark Dewey]

I've noticed that when I use LilyPond midis as karaoke,
they skip the first word (at least in VanBasco's
Karaoke Player - that's generally all I use for midis,
other than Anvil Studio).  This appears to happen with
every version of LilyPond I've used for a really long
time.  I'm currently using 2.11.18 on Windows 2000.
Also (just a side-note, and perhaps not a bug:), it
seems the first verse isn't the chosen one for karaoke
most of the time (I'm not sure how the verse used is
determined when there are multiple verses on the same
music, but it would be nice to choose it; perhaps
there's a way already).