Value of Menu-Item-Text on Sharepoint Top Navigation Selection

Value of Menu-Item-Text on Sharepoint Top Navigation Selection

I need to capture as a variable the value of Menu-Item-Text for the "static selected" item on the Top Navigation bar of a SharePoint 2013 page.  A couple of posts got me close but I can't seem to get that value.  In the html below, I want to capture "Tools and Resources" as a variable so I can use it.  There is only one "static selected" class among the Top Nav tabs.  All the others are just "status".  I'm only interested in the one that is currently selected.  Thanks.

<div id="zz11_motTopNavHolder" class="s4-tn noindex ms-core-listMenu-horizontalBox">
    <ul id="zz12_RootAspMenu" class="root ms-core-listMenu-root static">
          <li class="static selected"><a class="static selected menu-item ms-core-listMenu-item ms-displayInline ms-core-listMenu-selected ms-navedit-linkNode" tabindex="0" title="IT Support" href="/sites/MOT/IT/Pages/Tools.aspx" accesskey="1"><span class="additional-background ms-navedit-flyoutArrow"><span class="menu-item-text">Tools and Resources</span><span class="ms-hidden">Currently selected</span></span></a><ul class="static">