Down In The Boondocks:Billy Joe Royal.
#1 in Canada and #9 in the USA in 1965.
INTRO: [A] ///
CHORUS:
[A] [D]
Down in the boondocks..down in the boondocks.
[E] [D] [A]
People put me down cause that's the side of town I was born in.
[A] [D]
I love her, she loves me, but I don't fit in her society..
[E] [D] [A]
Lord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks.
#1.
[A] [D] [A]
Every night I watch the lights from the house up on the hill.
[A] [D] [C#] [F#m]
I love a little girl that lives up there, I guess I always will.
[D] [E] [D] [E]
But I don't dare knock on her door..her daddy is my boss man.
[D] [E] [D] [E]
So I'll just have to be content, to see her when ever I can.
CHORUS:
[A] [D]
Down in the boondocks..down in the boondocks.
[E] [D] [A]
People put me down cause that's the side of town I was born in.
[A] [D]
I love her, she loves me, but I don't fit in her society..
[E] [D] [A]
Lord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks.
(INTERLUDE:)
[A#]
Down in the boondocks..down in the boondocks.
#2.
[A#] [D#] [A#]
One fine day I'll find a way to move from this old shack.
[A#] [D#] [D] [Gm]
I'll hold my head up like a king and I never, never will look back.
[D#] [F] [D#] [F]
Until that morning I'll work and slave and I'll save every dime..
[D#] [F] [D#] [F]
but tonight she'll have to steal away..to see me one more time.
CHORUS:
[A#] [D#]
Down in the boondocks..down in the boondocks.
[F] [D#] [A#]
People put me down cause that's the side of town I was born in.
[A#] [D#]
I love her, she loves me, but I don't fit in her society..
[F] [D#] [A#]
Lord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks.
OUTRO:
[F] [D#] [A#]
Lord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks.
[F] [D#] [A#]
Lord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
