This song was printed with melody, text and a full set of lyrics in Sing Out! many years ago and, if I am not mistaken, it was included in one of the reprints volumes. The title there was "Tyin' Knots In the Devil's Tail."

In addition, unless I am very much mistaken (as Monty Python used to say) it is included in John Lomax's seminal collection of cowboy ballads, first published in 1916 or so but I believe still in print somewhere.

As to recorded versions, I second the vote for Harry Jackson's as the best. Jackson is better known as a sculptor than as a singer (he has bronze casts of cowboy scenes in places like the White House) but I think he is a better singer than a sculptor. His recordings of cowboy songs for Folkways are the most authentic-sounding renditions I've heard.