diff --git a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/openlyricsimport.py b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/openlyricsimport.py
index f3639fc3b..42d075c51 100644
--- a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/openlyricsimport.py
+++ b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/openlyricsimport.py
@@ -70,6 +70,6 @@ class OpenLyricsImport(SongImport):
                 parsed_file = etree.parse(open(file_path, u'r'), parser)
                 xml = unicode(etree.tostring(parsed_file))
                 self.openLyrics.xml_to_song(xml)
-            except etree.XMLSyntaxError:
+            except etree.XMLSyntaxError, AttributeError:
                 log.exception(u'XML syntax error in file %s' % file_path)
                 self.logError(file_path, SongStrings.XMLSyntaxError)