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 Republic Tagalog Republic Tagalog Republic (Filipino: "Republika ng Katagalugan" or "Republikang Tagalog") is a term used to refer to two revolutionary governments involved in the Philippine Revolution against Spain and the Philippine–American War. Both were connected to the "Katipunan" revolutionary movement. The term "Tagalog" refers to both an ethno-linguistic group in the Philippines and their language. "Katagalugan" may refer to the historical Tagalog regions in the large island of Luzon, the northern part of the Philippine Archipelago. However, the "Katipunan" secret society extended the meaning of these terms to all natives in the Philippine islands. The society's primer explains its use