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 people An alternative theory states that the name is derived from "tagá-alog", which means "people from the ford" (the prefix "tagá-" meaning "coming from" or "native of"). In 1821, American diplomat Edmund Roberts called the Tagalog ""Tagalor"" in his memoirs about his trips to the Philippines. The Angono Petroglyphs in Rizal was most likely been made by Austronesian peoples, of which the most likely are the ancestors of the Tagalog people. There are 127 human and animal figures engraved on the rock wall, that were probably carved during the late Neolithic, or before 2000 BC. According to archaeologists, the human figures