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 profanity its use in speeches by Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, the phrase "Putang ina mo" (sometimes shortened to "tang ina" or minced as "PI") has received considerable international attention and controversy as to its meaning. "" is a borrowed word from Spanish, in which language it means "whore". "Ina" is Tagalog for mother, while "mo" is the indirect second person singular pronoun. Therefore, if translated word-for-word, the phrase means "Your mother is a whore." However, most Tagalog speakers dispute this simplistic translation, instead alternately rendering the phrase as "son of a bitch" or as a variation of the word "fuck." According