I had forgotten the intro! You know, I had noted the times, when the verses, choruses, or bridge begin, to listen into the parts repeatedly while I was writing and editing lines of text until they matched the tune. While I listened to the chorus about a dozen times, for example, I never listend to the song as a whole again. Thus I overlooked - or rather failed to hear - the intro. It's only one line that is repeated once. Two plus three syllables:
"sweet girl - free at last"
Cool, isn't it? A kind of Wagnerian lyric!