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,
Vanua Vanua The word banua or vanua – meaning "land," "home," or "village" – occurs in several Austronesian languages. It derives from the Proto-Austronesian reconstructed form *"banua". The word has particular significance in several countries. In the Kapampangan language, "banwa" or "banua" means "sky" or "year". In the Hiligaynon Visayan language, "banwa" means "people", "nation" or "country." In the Tagalog/Filipino language, a similar word "bansa" also means "country", "nation" or "country." In the Malay language (both Malaysian Malay and Indonesian language), benua means "landmass" or "continent". The word for "land" in these languages and nearby Austronesian languages are "tanah" or "tana".