“Words Without Song” (opens in new tab)

In 1903, Gilbert Woglom of New York composed “The Tramp’s Gratitude,” a musical composition in which the names of the notes, taken successively, spell out a poem: A bad-faced, faded, aged cad Begged a feed, a bed, bedad. Bedded, fed, a café added, Bed, bag, baggage, egad, cad cabbaged. The longest English word that can be spelled with musical note names alone is CABBAGE-FACED.