More from the tape:

...There was a wild streak in (Jamie McGee's) makeup, and around the age of seventeen, he broke away from home, and thereafter earned a precarious living as an itinerant street musician. Which is how he honed his instrumental skills, and learned to dodge missiles. He served as an infantryman in the Great War, where he failed to dodge the shell which cost him so dear, and it was immediately after the armistice that he decided to seek adventure, if not fortune, in the United States.

...Here's...McGee with "Blind Lemon Meringue" in the fascinating "Wheezing Bag Blues"; an impassioned lament, occasioned, as the introduction to the song makes clear, by a rather nasty barroom brawl:

I was standing, playing in the bar, when this big fella starts makin' disparagin' remarks about ma kilt. And ah says tae him, "You never seen a kilt before?", and he says, "Only on pretty wee lassies", and ah was nae sae pretty. But he lifted up ma kilt all the same tae see what he could see. And he begins tae lift up ma kilt and ah says tae him, ah says tae him, "If you do that again, ah'll melt you." And he does do it again. Sae I fetched him a crack in the scones wi' ma pipes, and he pulls a knife at me, and sticks it intae me. As he thinks. And it woulda done for me too, but it hits the auld bag first, an the leather takes most o' the blow. So ah kicks him in the goolies and his head comes forward and ah jam the chanter intae his mouth and damn near push his brains out through the top o' his skull. But ever since then, the auld pipes wheeze, somethin' dreadful. Now just you listen to them wheeze... yeah."

Ah got a hole in ma bagpipes, and they dinnae blow true
Ah got a hole in ma bagpipes, and they dinnae blow true
They wheeze and they whistle, like the pipes shouldnae do.

Oh Mama! Listen to those bagpipes wheeze!
Oh Mama! Listen to those bagpipes wheeze!
Mama, they just squeak! No matter how ah squeeze!

Yeah!

Ooo ahh covered up (unknown words) leather pipes
Ah done done done covered up (unknown words) auld leather pipes
It's a nice wee fair leather, but the tartan disnae match.

Oh, but just hear those bagpipes wheeze
Umm, man, they're wheezin' noo
Oh, wheeze wheeze wheeze wheeze...