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,
Maisin language Maisin language Maisin (or Maisan) is a language of Papua New Guinea with both Austronesian and Papuan features. The Austronesian elements are those of the Nuclear Papuan Tip languages. The Papuan element is Binanderean or Dagan. It is spoken by the Maisin people of Oro Province. and are not phonemic, but are distinguished in the orthography. Syllables can begin and end with up to one consonant each. I.e., English "wrong" would be an acceptable word, but "strength" would not. Words can only end in either a vowel or . The vowels and never occur word-initially. never occurs before or .