How do I change the size of lyric text?

[Peter Toye]

I want to add lyrics to a cue staff, but can't see how to change the font size to match the rest of the staff. I've tried the followoing, but it doesn't change anything, whatever I set LyricText.font-size to. The text says it all...

\version "2.19.52"

\language "english"

\score {
  \new Staff \with {
    fontSize = #-3
    \override StaffSymbol.staff-space = #(magstep -3)
    \override LyricText.font-size = #-6
  }
  {
   c''1  
  }
  \addlyrics {
    Help!
  }  
}

 
Regards,

Peter
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