Down in the boondocks down in the boondocks  People lookin' down cause that's the side of town I was born in  I love him he loves me but I don't fit in his society  Lord have mercy on the girl from down in the boondocks    Every night I watch the lights from the house up on the hill  I love a boy who lives up there and I guess I always will  But I don't dare go near his door cause jis folks won't let me in  So I have to try to be content just to see him wherever I can  Down in the boondocks...    One find day I'll find a way to move from this old shack  I'll hold my head up like a queen and I never never will look back  Until that day I'll save my love for a boy I'll soon call mine  But tonight he'll have to steal away to see me one more time  Down in the boondocks...  Lord have mercy on the girl from down in the boondocks