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Oct 25, 1996 · “Pompatus” mystified millions when Steve Miller used it in his 1973 hit “The Joker”: “Some people call me the space cowboy. / Yeah! Some call me the gangster of love. / Some people call me Maurice, / Cause I speak of the Pompatus of love.”
It is one of two Steve Miller Band songs that feature the nonce word "pompatus". The first line of the lyrics is a reference to the song "Space Cowboy" from Miller's Brave New World album. The following lines refer to two other songs: " Gangster of Love " from Sailor and "Enter Maurice" from Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden .
Oct 15, 2019 · One line in the song has always confused fans (and critics alike). When Miller sings : "Cause I speak of the pompatus of love". Watch in the clip below as he tells the history of his first Number one single and finally clears up the confusion over that word "Pompatus".
Lyrics. The lyrics of "The Joker" include the quatrain: Some people call me the space cowboy. Yeah! Some call me the gangster of love. Some people call me Maurice, 'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love.
May 11, 2020 · The pompatus/pompitous of love is a nonsense lyric, based on a lyric originally written by Vernon Green. However, Vernon Green did have the imagination to say that it was about intimate things that you would tell only to a close and special person.
The Joker Lyrics: Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah / Some call me the gangster of love / Some people call me Maurice / 'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love / People talk about me,...
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The song is a love letter to the woman of his dreams, and includes these spoken-word lyrics: Let me whisper sweet words of pizmotality. and discuss the pompatus of love. Put it together and what do you have? Matrimony. Except "pompatus" is really "puppetutes," according to Green.
