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 American contacts with the Philippines. "Buwisit" (sometimes spelled "bwisit"), borrowed from Hokkien (), is a Tagalog word meaning a misfortune, but also used in a mildly vulgar sense as a word for a nuisance. "Hayop" means 'animal' in English. If used as a sentence in Tagalog, "Hayop ka." means you're an animal. You're not human. Outcast. Or something that goes in the lines of that. "Letse" can loosely be translated to the English ""fuck off."" It became popular when Spanish was still a language used by the major demographic on the country. "Letse" or "Leche" (spanish for "milk") is derived