Lyr Req: Call me anything but call me

Subject: Lyr Req: Call me anything but call me
From: GUEST,AnDiazMusic
Date: 27 Feb 23 - 08:05 PM

Hello everyone,
I'm looking for some words on this 1953 song.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bFJ4L5NT8cA


This is what I've got so far:

Call me “ ”, call me a thief, call me a " ", call me a “freak”
I want that phone to ring, call me anything, but call me

call me "your peaches" “, call me a “ “, call me a nightmare, call me your dream
I want that phone to ring, call me anything, but call me

since you left me it’s tough
baby how rough it’s been

call me call me call me
just got to hear your voice again

tell me a wicked, tell me I'm bad, call me the meanest woman you had
I want that phone to ring, call me anything, but baby call me

since you left me it’s tough
baby how rough it’s been
call me call me call me
just got to hear your voice again

tell me I'm wicked, tell me I'm bad, call me the meanest woman you had
I want that phone to ring, call me anything, but baby call me

Thanks in advance
An

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Call me anything but call me
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Feb 23 - 10:42 PM

I thought this was Ma Rainey, but it isn't. It's Big Memphis Ma Rainey.

Big Memphis Ma Rainey Biography by Steve Leggett
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/big-memphis-ma-rainey-mn0000058060/biography

Born September 9, 1907 in Columbia, Tennessee, Lillie Mae Glover ran away from home in 1920 when she was only 13 to join the Tom Simpson Traveling Medicine Show. Her father was a preacher and she wanted to sing the blues, so that was that. She worked in several road shows before landing in Memphis, Tennessee in the late '20s, becoming a regular performer on the city's famed Beale Street, where she was known as "the Mother of Beale Street." She recorded and performed under several different names, including Lillian Mae Glover, Mae Glover, and Big Memphis Ma Rainey, the name under which she tracked a few sides for Sun Records in 1953. She died in 1985 at Tishomingo County Hospital in Iuka, Mississippi at the age of 77.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Call me anything but call me
From: GUEST,AnDiazMusic
Date: 28 Feb 23 - 04:29 AM

I thought the same at first, so I looked up the lyrics on Angela Davis' "Blues legacies and Black Feminism", but they weren't they, obviously.

Any hints on what she sings?

Thanks in advance
An

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Call me anything but call me
From: cnd
Date: 28 Feb 23 - 08:14 AM

Here's how I hear it:

Call me eager, call me a thief, call me, oh goodness!, call me a freak
I want that phone to ring, call me anything, but call me

Call me your peaches, call me your cream, call me a nightmare, call me your dream
I want that phone to ring, call me anything, but call me

Since you've left me it's tough
Baby, how rough it's been

Call me, call me, call me
Just got to hear your voice again

Tell me I'm wicked, tell me I'm bad, call me the meanest woman you've had
I want that phone to ring, call me anything, but baby call me

Since you left me it's tough, baby, how rough it's been
Call me, call me, call me, just got to hear your voice again

Tell me I'm wicked, tell me I'm bad, call me the meanest woman you've had
I want that phone to ring, call me anything, but baby call me

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Call me anything but call me
From: GUEST,AnDiazMusic
Date: 28 Feb 23 - 10:16 AM

Thank you so much, cnd! That makes a lot of sense :)