Germantown Tennessee which was when Noah Lewis sang Going to German, a few hundred folks huddled around the freight depot, though today it is an "upscale" suburb of Memphis.

It was surveyed and laid out in the 1830s or 40s by a man named N. T. German and was named Germantown for him, not as is erroneously stated for a large German population or anything related to the Country of Germany.

In the 1920s when Noah Lewis who was from the other side of Memphis North of the City, local people still referred to German Town as "German." Noah sang going to German to mean going to German. He had never been to Germany or at that point anywhere more than 30 miles from Memphis.

Especially in the blues like this that he sang with Cannon's Jug Stompers, Noah Lewis had a remarkable sense of free association of verses not directly and almost never in a narrative sense tied together.   He put together verses that seemed to meet the emotional mood he was accessing with his reat harmonica and voice.

Trying to make narrative sense of this or most of his other blues is contrary to what he was doing.

Victor Records did not know what they doing and when they received this or perhaps Peer himself or his assistants in Memphis did not understand this and instead called this Going to Germany.

Noah Lewis probably never heard this record.