Lyr. Add: I'VE GOT NO USE FOR THE WOMEN
Myra Hull Collection, 1939

I've got no use for the women;
A true one may never be found;
They'll stand by a man when he's winning,
And laugh in his face when he's down.
My pal was a straight young puncher,
Honest and upright and square;
He became a gambler and gunman,
And a woman sent him there.
If she'd been the pal that she should have,
He might have been raisin' a son
Instead of out there on the prairies
To fall by the ranger's gun.

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When a vaquero insulted her picture
He filled him full of lead.

All the night long they trailed him
O'er mesquite and gay chaparral;
And I couldn't help think of that woman
As I saw him pitch and fall.
He raised his head on his elbow,
The blood from his wounds flowed red;
He looked around at his comrades,
Whispered to them and said:

Oh, bury me out on the prairie
Where the coyotes may howl o'er my grave.
Bury me out on the prairie,
Some of my bones to save.
Wrap me up in my blanket;
Bury me deep in the ground,
Then cover me over with boulders
Of granite huge and round.

So we buried him out on the prairie,
Where the coyotes still howl o'er his grave;
And his soul is now a-resting
From the unkind touch she gave;
And many another young puncher
As he rides by that pile of stones,
Recalls some similar woman,
And envies his mouldering bones.

Printed with music. Myra Hull comments: "Sometimes the cowboy songs are cynical in mood. Such a one is "I've Got No Use for the Women," as sung by Freda Butterfield, Iola [KS] (footnote 22- a request for information). I know nothing as to the origin of this 'gambler and gunman' song. Such terms as "mesquite," "chaparral" and "vaquero" indicate that it hails from the Southwest."

From Kansas State Historical Quarterly. "Cowboy Ballads," by Myra Hull, Feb. 1939 (Vol. 8, No. 1), 35-60.
On line at http://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1939/39_1_hull.htm
Cowboy Ballads

My comment about this possibly being written by Travis V. Hale is premature; it could be traditional. Ms Hull doesn't explain the missing lines in verse 2.