# What is the longest word ever mentioned in a song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117 "2014-04-14T23:00:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CheeseDonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/1 "2014-04-14T23:00:44Z")
Preferably a “radio” type song, like one that would get played on the radio. Not a musical/play/novelty-supercalifragilisticexpialidocious type song. Has any artist ever worked ‘antidisestablishmentarianism’ into his or her lyrics? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/2 "2014-04-14T23:10:30Z")
Moved to Cafe Society. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/3 "2014-04-14T23:10:30Z")
Supercalifragilicious was introduced in a song, Mary Poppins if i’m not mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/4 "2014-04-14T23:12:48Z")
Also, what’s the longest one that rhymed? Donovon gets some credit for managing to use “antediluvian”, but I’m sure there’s longer. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/5 "2014-04-14T23:20:49Z")
Does [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCzElCx_LK8) count? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/6 "2014-04-14T23:22:47Z")
> [@yabob](#): > > Also, what’s the longest one that rhymed? Billy Joel rhymed “Starkweather homicide” with “children of Thalidomide.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/7 "2014-04-14T23:26:00Z")
Shriekback rhymed “big, black nemesis” with “parthenogenesis”. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/8 "2014-04-14T23:30:55Z")
> [@CheeseDonkey](#): > > Has any artist ever worked ‘antidisestablishmentarianism’ into his or her lyrics? [Eminem has](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XTTfxKF387M#t=168). (ETA: Warning NSFW lyrics ahead.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/9 "2014-04-14T23:32:14Z")
So Solid Crew rhymed “but who can decide” with “institutionalised”. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/10 "2014-04-14T23:33:29Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > Supercalifragilicious was introduced in a song, Mary Poppins if i’m not mistaken. Except you forgot the _ **-sticexpialido-** _ part in the middle! ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/11 "2014-04-14T23:38:04Z")
Well, there’s the 1938 hit “[My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Grass_Shack_in_Kealakekua,_Hawaii)”, with the following chorus: “I want to go back to my little grass shack In Kealakekua, Hawai`i Where the humuhumunukunukuâpua’a Go swimming by” ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/12 "2014-04-15T00:32:00Z")
Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/13 "2014-04-15T00:34:20Z")
J. J. Jingleheimer-Schmidt as a hyphenated proper noun? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/14 "2014-04-15T00:40:33Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > J. J. Jingleheimer-Schmidt as a hyphenated proper noun? Hey! That’s my name! ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/15 "2014-04-15T00:59:51Z")
I believe it is ‘Getting Jiggy on the Shores of [Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chaubunagungamaug)’ sung by the Algonquian Bonfire Seven. Sadly, they didn’t have a written language, all the band members are now deceased and the full song is unrecorded so the lyrics and melody are mostly lost. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/16 "2014-04-15T01:13:47Z")
[A Part of That](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPAtZVqU11A) from _The Last Five Years_ should count, because it has the word “smiles” in it several times. “Smiles” has a mile between its first and last letters. That’s pretty long. The Ballad of Buzz Lightyear probably would count, if that was a real song, because a lightyear is even longer than a mile. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/17 "2014-04-15T01:39:28Z")
I give you **Professor Green** ’s [_D.P.M.O._](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU_xuWQR47Y), from his 2nd album (_At Your Inconvenience_), an excellent rap song by this Brit which prominently features the word _pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis_ ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/18 "2014-04-15T01:44:39Z")
“Fartstinkslikeamotherfucker!” as the opening lyric to Pantera’s “Domination”. OK, that’s not one word, but it’s said quite rapidly. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/19 "2014-04-15T02:04:41Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > So Solid Crew rhymed “but who can decide” with “institutionalised”. According to Google, their use of “institutionalised” is actually the longest word ever in a Top 40 hit song. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117/20 "2014-04-15T05:54:44Z")
_Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu_, used in [a few songs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu#In_popular_culture), most notably “[The Lone Ranger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hchOYs_d_Bw)”, a 1976 UK hit for the band _Quantum Jump_. Unlike _supercalifragilisticexpialidocious_ it is not just something made up to be long, it is Maori. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-word-ever-mentioned-in-a-song/686117.md?page=2)