Gordon G. Rogers (September 8, 1904, Hobart, Oklahoma – February 6, 1996), better known as Boody Rogers, was an American comic strip and comic book cartoonist who created the superhero parody Sparky Watts.
Born in Hobart, Oklahoma, Rogers attended the University of Arizona, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Chicago Art Institute. His artistic influences included Walter Berndt.
In the late 1920s and through the 1930s, Rogers illustrated newspaper strips for such syndicates as the Newspaper Feature Service, the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. Rogers was Zack Mosley's assistant on The Adventures of Smilin' Jack when he sold his own strip, Sparky Watts, to the Frank Jay Markey Syndicate, which distributed such strips as Ed Wheelan's Big Top and Rube Goldberg's Lala Palooza. Sparky Watts debuted Monday, April 29, 1940 in some 40 newspapers. The strip ended when Rogers was drafted. During World War II he gave chalk talks to servicemen. His WWII experiences are detailed in his autobiography, Homeless Bound (1984).
Spent so many lonely nights
Dreamin' how you did me wrong
I fall to the ground and I wake up
You could at least, baby, take me on
Then maybe we could go out make out
But the floor, I picked myself up from
Is floating with dust and shit, yeah, the break down
But I've been kicked before
And I've been shown the door
Mostly, it's not new to me
I'm singing, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, dow, dow, dow, dow
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, dow, dow, dow, dow
I'm singing
You got me singing, you got me singing, hey
So, if you wanna open up your eyes
And see, down, baby, baby, you will never be, girl
I'm just squattin' in your mixed up world
And that's the truth, that's the truth
Your poison letters and telegrams
Just go to show you don't give a damn, hey, hey, hey yeah
And I'll stand right back up, my soul is strong itself
I just don't want you as an enemy
I'm singing, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, dow, dow, dow, dow
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, dow, dow, dow, dow
I'm singing
You got me singing, you got me singing
Hate the game, don't hate the player
We only do with what we do
Hate the game, don't hate the player
I know that it can be so hard on you
The hardest gig in the world
Is to be a musician's girl
I said the hardest gig in the world
Is to be a musician's, a musician's girl
You got me singing, you got me singing
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, dow, dow, dow, dow
Hey, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, dow, dow, dow, dow, you got me singing
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, dow, dow, dow, dow
Hey, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, dow, dow, dow, dow