Aligning lyric syllables to notes within beams and slurs?

[John Helly]

    Aloha.
    
    I'm working on transcribing the sheet music for Wooden Ships
    (Crosby, Stills, Kantner) into LP as a learning exercise for
    myself.  I'm self-taught in reading music so pls forgive blunders
    (but also pls point them out).
    
    I'm having trouble aligning the lyrics with the beaming structure of
    the published sheet music.  The only method that seems to allow me
    to get the desired alignment is to connect the syllables with
    underscores and that seems like a big kluge.  
    
    Maybe I'm missing some option to allow lyrics to align with beamed
    and slurred notes within a beam and/or slur?
    
    My understanding is that the default behavior is to align syllables
    on the first note of the beam rather than on the notes within a
    beam.  Not sure if that's correct.
    
    Mahalo.
    J.

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John Helly, University of California, San Diego / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography / 760 840 8660 mobile / http://www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj
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