Long as we're pursuing superlatives (or at least extremes), how's this for "world's shortest shipwreck ballad", which Holly Tannen attributed to the late Peter Bellamy when she posted it in another music list...

"The gallant frigate Amphitrite
Got sunk off Plymouth Sound."

The End

And The Wild Rover has the longest sequence of consecutive negatives known in the English language.

"No nay never no nay never no..."

Go ahead, prove me wrong. Make my day.

Bill in Remarkably Sunny Ontario