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,
Batangas Tagalog the use of "pô" and "opò" (the more-common variant in other Tagalog-speaking regions). Batangas Tagalog Batangas Tagalog (more properly Batangan, Batangeño, or Batangenyo ), is a dialect of the Tagalog language that is spoken primarily in the province of Batangas and in portions of Quezon, Laguna and on the island of Mindoro. It is characterized by a strong accent and a vocabulary and grammar that is closely related to Old Tagalog. . It is not customary, in colloquial Batangan, to speak Taglish (or to infuse English terms, like in Manila Tagalog). The most recognizable difference is the use of the