Back on 13-Aug-08, Q_(Frank_Staplin) raised a question about a version of this song supposedly written by Gene Autry. He posted lyrics that he got from a website but I can’t find his source, and I suspect the attribution to Gene Autry is mistaken.


I’VE GOT NO USE FOR WOMEN
As sung by Gene Autry in the film “Under Fiesta Stars,” 1941. (You can see the scene at YouTube.)
Written by Sol Meyer (as credited at IMDb.com).

I’ve got no use for some women; a true one may seldom be found.
They’ll use a man for his money; when it’s gone, they’ll turn him down.
Their hearts are alike at the bottom, selfish and grasping for all.
They’ll stay by a man while he’s winnin’ and laugh in his face at his fall.

When a woman declares that she loves you, she may have her fingers crossed,
And if you believe what she tells you, you’ll wake up and find you’ve lost.
When a man starts to courtin’ a woman, he very seldom will win.
When he’s chasin’, he’s safe till he gets her; when he’s caught, the trouble begins.

I like my horse better’n that woman; a horse is a friend I can trust.
As long as I give him a feedbag, he don’t mind the sand or the dust.
A horse will remember your kindness; he’ll carry a hundred-pound pack.
A woman will cry like a dogie, but a horse will never talk back.

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Various recordings titled I[’VE] GOT NO USE FOR [THE] WOMEN (“I’ve got” is sometimes rendered as “I got”, and “the” is sometimes omitted) have been made by The Tune Wranglers (1936), Burl Ives (“More Folksongs,” 1950), Ed McCurdy (“Songs of a Bold Balladeer,”1958), Mac Wiseman (single, 1959), Marty Robbins (“More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs,” 1960), Peter La Farge (“Songs of the Cowboys,” 1963), Homer & Jethro (“Go West,” 1963),, and The Norman Luboff Choir (“Songs of the Trail,” 1966)!

There is a song called BURY ME OUT ON THE PRAIRIE that has as its first line: “Now, I’ve got no use for the women,” written by Nick Manoloff, 1934.