Early 1900s songwriters had a penchant for devising lengthy titles for their compositions.

A perfect example from 1909, “It Is Hard to Kiss Your Sweetheart When the Last Kiss Means ‘Good Bye’” is a whopping fourteen words long.

The sheet music for this piece has a hand lettered, Art Nouveau sans serif design which became the working model for La Vie Nouveau JNL [which translates to “the new life”], and is available in both regular and oblique versions.