I found a "work around" just now, sort of, because I'm trying to do the same thing.

If you go to the notation window and add a lyric (I just insert a letter "X" at the very beginning), then go to Lyrics/Copy Lyrics to Clipboard, you'll get the chords AND the lyric--and they are finally "pasteable" as text to Notepad, or WordPad, or whatever.

John's method pastes as a graphic--not text.