Joe -

You can't select the text from the Google books, because they're just scans (images) of the book pages - not text. You can use the graphics select tool to cut out a part, paste it into your graphics program (Photoshop Elements is my choice), save as .jpg, which your OCR program probably could convert.

You beat me to the lyrics because I figured I'd need to look at the whole book to get © dates etc, and with my connection it was a 40 minute download.

The .pdf of the book opens with "errors." PSE normally could import pages direct to graphics, but there's apparently something wrong with the download I got, so the copy/paste to .jpg is the best that could be done with this one.

The book has a bunch of really maudlin stuff, so it could be fertile ground for someone wanting to set some tearjerkers to tunes.

I didn't find any additional credits for the author of the one in question, so nothing additional about background for it...

Do we suppose the one who asked is still around after 9 years?

John