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 Chinese.) For example, when a person refers to the number "seven", it can be translated into Tagalog as ""pito"" or ""syete"" (Spanish: "siete"). Months and days in Tagalog are also localised forms of Spanish months and days. "Month" in Tagalog is "buwán" (also the word for moon) and "day" is "araw" (the word also means sun). Unlike Spanish, however, months and days in Tagalog are always capitalised. Time expressions in Tagalog are also Tagalized forms of the corresponding Spanish. "Time" in Tagalog is "panahon", or more commonly "oras". Unlike Spanish and English, times in Tagalog are capitalized whenever they appear