Billy Joe Royal - Down In the Boondocks (100% glitch free) (1965)(Stereo)

"Down in the Boondocks" is a song written by Joe South, and first recorded by American artist Billy Joe Royal as his debut single. It was a hit in 1965, reaching No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.In the UK, it hit No. 38 on the Record Retailer chart.In Canada, it reached No. 1 on the RPM chart, on August 9, 1965.The song is the title track of Royal's second album, Down in the Boondocks.
The song is sung from the perspective of a self-proclaimed "boy from down in the boondocks." He sings of a girl who lives nearby, for whom he feels love and steals away with occasionally. The people who live or are born in the boondocks are suggested to be a lower class than those in the city. The girl's father is the singer's boss, which, along with the social division, prevents him from proclaiming his love and connecting with her, despite their shared feelings (which is the basis for the line "but I don't dare knock on her door/for her daddy is my boss man"). The singer proclaims that "one fine day, I'll find a way, to move from this old shack", presumably to be able to join the higher class members of society and finally be able to date the girl openly. Essentially the same theme appeared some twenty months earlier in the lyrics of Joey Powers' "Midnight Mary".

In the summer of 1965, "Down in the Boondocks" launched the top 40 career of Billy Joe Royal, who had recorded the song a year earlier. The song's writer, Joe South was a longtime friend and professional associate of Royal: South had played guitar for Royal since the singer had begun performing in local venues at age 14, and from 1961 South had produced Royal's recordings of demos and low-budget singles.It has been reported that Royal's recording of "Down in the Boondocks" was intended to serve as a demo to pitch the song to Gene Pitney, the song being evocative of Pitney's trademark hit sound with an especial resemblance to Pitney's 1963 hit "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa":reportedly Bill Lowery, South's music publisher and Royal's manager, was so impressed with Royal's own recording of "Down in the Boondocks" as to pursue a major label release for it.Royal himself would deny any intent to pitch the song to Pitney - (Billy Joe Royal quote:)"We would've never [been able to get] a song to him...Our plan was [for Royal] to try to sing like Gene Pitney...We were so young, we thought: 'Well they'll think it's Gene Pitney, and by the time they know it's [not, it'll already be] a hit'".
Lyrics
Down in the boondocks
Down in the boondocks
People put me down
'Cause that's the side of town
I was born in
I love her, she loves me
But I don't fit in her society
Lord have mercy on the boy
From down in the boondocks
Every night I watch the lights
From the house up on the hill
I love a little girl that lives up there
And I guess I always will
But I don't dare knock on her door
'Cause her daddy is my boss man
So I'll just have to be content
To see her whenever I can
Down in the boondocks
Down in the boondocks
People put me down
'Cause that's the side of town
I was born in
I love her, she loves me
But I don't fit in her society
Lord have mercy on the boy
From down in the boondocks
Down in the boondocks
Down in the boondocks
One fine day I'll find the way
To move from this old shack
I'll hold my head up like a king
And I never, never will look back
Until that morning I'll work and slave
And I'll save every dime
But tonight she'll have to steal away
To see me one more time
Down in the boondocks
Down in the boondocks
People put me down
'Cause that's the side of town
I was born in
I love her, she loves me
But I don't fit in her society
Lord have mercy on the boy
From down in the boondocks
Lord have mercy on the boy
From down in the boondocks
Lord have mercy on the boy
From down in the boondocks
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Joe South

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