Your comments made me remember the old saying: “The sun has riz, The sun has set, And here we are, in Texas yet.
I think it was on a postcard I mailed in the early 1950’s.
That’s cute - reminds me of one that ended with “I wonder where the flowers is” but I don’t remember what the first two lines were...now that will bug me the rest of the day UNLESS it comes to me in the next 2 seconds when I leave the computer.
My sister and her family lived in El Paso when her husband was stationed there in the ‘60’s. They used to travel to our home state of New York every summer. The kids used to ask, “Are we there yet” and my sister would say, “we’re not out of Texas yet” so on subsequent trips, they changed their question to “are we out of Texas yet?”