"Going to Boston", also known as "We're All Going to Boston" is an old-time air and breakdown from Kentucky and Indiana in A Mixolydian. The parts are played AB. A song version of the melody can be found in Cecil Sharp's English Folksongs from the Southern Appalachians, collected at Hindman, Kentucky in 1917, as "Going to Boston". A play-party version of the song can be found in Leah Jackson's The Play-Party in Indiana: A Collection of Folk-Songs and Games with Descriptive Introduction, and Correlating Notes (1916, Indiana Historical Commission, Indianapolis), under the title "Go to Boston", collected from Mrs. Susan Ballman (Versailles, Ind.). The ending of both the verses and chorus "Earlye in the morning" is lyrically and melodically similar to the sea chanty "The Drunken Sailor". It seems strange that a sea chanty should show up in the mountains of Kentucky but Louise Pound in Folk-song of Nebraska and the Central West: A Syllabus (1915) relates that the song was known in the midwest as early as 1915, two years before Cecil Sharp collected a play-party named "Up She Rises". in Berea, Kentucky. The source for the notated version is folksinger Jean Ritchie's Dulcimer Book. It was printed in Spadaro's 10 Cents a Dance (1980), MacNeil's You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer (1989), J. A. & A. Lomax's American Ballads and Folk Songs (1934), Ritchie's Dulcimer Book (1963), Sharp's English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (1917) and Randolph's Ozark Folksongs: Volume III, Humorous & Play-Party Songs (1946). It was recorded by Kretzner and Leibovitz on Dulcimer Fair (1981) and Jean Ritchie on Appalachian Dulcimer (1963).