{"id":23144,"date":"2025-05-31T23:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T23:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=23144"},"modified":"2025-08-07T20:52:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:52:37","slug":"down-in-the-boondocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/down-in-the-boondocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Down in the Boondocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code class=\"nr2Gp\"><\/code><\/p>\n<pre class=\"xNWlr hjutX PBFx0\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Down In The Boondocks:Billy Joe Royal.\r\n#1 in Canada and #9 in the USA in 1965.\r\n \r\nINTRO: A \/\/\/\r\n \r\nCHORUS:\r\nA                      D\r\nDown in the boondocks..down in the boondocks.\r\nE                        D                             A\r\nPeople put me down cause that's the side of town I was born in.\r\nA                             D\r\nI love her, she loves me, but I don't fit in her society..\r\nE                      D                    A\r\nLord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks.\r\n \r\n#1.\r\nA                                       D               A\r\nEvery night I watch the lights from the house up on the hill.\r\nA                         D                 C#             F#m\r\nI love a little girl that lives up there, I guess I always will.\r\n    D                  E                D                E\r\nBut I don't dare knock on her door..her daddy is my boss man.\r\n   D                 E              D                   E\r\nSo I'll just have to be content, to see her when ever I can.\r\n \r\nCHORUS:\r\nA                      D\r\nDown in the boondocks..down in the boondocks.\r\nE                        D                             A\r\nPeople put me down cause that's the side of town I was born in.\r\nA                             D\r\nI love her, she loves me, but I don't fit in her society..\r\nE                      D                    A\r\nLord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks.<\/strong>\r\n<strong>E                      D                    A <\/strong>\r\n<strong>Lord have mercy on the boy from down in the boondocks.<\/strong> \r\n \r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s the side of town I was born in. A D I love &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/down-in-the-boondocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Down in the Boondocks<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}