diff --git a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/openlyricsexport.py b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/openlyricsexport.py
index d6e21ee51..6ba1fabe7 100644
--- a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/openlyricsexport.py
+++ b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/openlyricsexport.py
@@ -70,10 +70,12 @@ class OpenLyricsExport(object):
                 song.title)
             xml = openLyrics.song_to_xml(song)
             tree = etree.ElementTree(etree.fromstring(xml))
-            filename = u'%s (%s).xml' % (song.title,
+            filename = u'%s (%s)' % (song.title,
                 u', '.join([author.display_name for author in song.authors]))
             filename = re.sub(
                 r'[/\\?*|<>\[\]":<>+%]+', u'_', filename).strip(u'_')
+            # Ensure the filename isn't too long for some filesystems
+            filename = u'%s.xml' % filename[0:250 - len(self.save_path)]
             # Pass a file object, because lxml does not cope with some special
             # characters in the path (see lp:757673 and lp:744337).
             tree.write(open(os.path.join(self.save_path, filename), u'w'),