No lyrics for first 8 bars

[sjha]

Hopefully a simple question...I have a jazz lead sheet with melody, chords
and lyrics. However the first 8 bars are an introduction without lyrics. The
only way I have managed to achieve this is in \lyricmode is by counting the
number of notes and inserting the same number of underscores (_ _ _ etc).
This seems very inelegant. Is there not a better way of instructing the
lyrics to start only at bar 9? 
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