\version "2.19.8"
#(set-default-paper-size "a6" 'landscape)

% This is an entirely different layout and slightly more elegant, I think.
% Here, new contexts are created in parallel to the music at the point
% where the stanzas begin.

refrain = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "1.–3."
                       This4 is the text2. of4 the re -- frain.2. }
stanzaOne = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "1."
                         This4 is the text2 __ of4 stan2 -- za4 one. }
stanzaTwo = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "2."
                         This4 is the text2 __ of4 stan2 -- za4 two. }
stanzaThree = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "3."
                           This4 is the text2 __ of4 stan2 -- za4 three. }
melody = \relative { \time 3/4 c'4 d e f2. d4 e f g2. \break
                     << \new Lyrics \stanzaOne
                        \new Lyrics \stanzaTwo
                        \new Lyrics \stanzaThree
                        { bes4 a g f( g8 f) e[( d]) g4( e) d c2. } >> }

\score {
  <<
    \new Voice \melody
    \new Lyrics \refrain
  >>
}