Boondocks song written and produced by Joe South. It tells the story of a young man who laments that people put him down because he was born in the boondocks. He is in love with the boss man's daughter and vows to work slavishly until, one day, he can "move from this old shack" and fit in with her society. Throughout the song, he asks that the "Lord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks". Boondocks The boondocks is an American expression that stems from the Tagalog word "bundók" ("mountain"). It originally referred to a remote rural area,
Tagalog language the Philippines as part of the vocabularies of Philippine English. Tagalog has contributed several words to Philippine Spanish, like "barangay" (from "balan͠gay," meaning "barrio"), the "abacá", "cogon", "palay", "dalaga" etc. Below is a chart of Tagalog and a number of other Austronesian languages comparing thirteen words. Religious literature remains one of the most dynamic contributors to Tagalog literature. The first Bible in Tagalog, then called "Ang Biblia" ("the Bible") and now called "Ang Dating Biblia" ("the Old Bible"), was published in 1905. In 1970, the Philippine Bible Society translated the Bible into modern Tagalog. Even before the Second Vatican Council,