"Are we there yet?" (Ogden Nash, 1964)

[Bapopik at AOL.COM]

   This was popularized by a television commercial in the 1990s, but the phrase goes back much further.  I don't know what date Fred Shapiro has.
   From the THIS WEEK magazine section of the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 19 April 1964, pages 6-7:

_ARE WE THERE YET, DADDY?_
By Ogden Nash
Drawn by Roy McKie

An ode and a lesson for those
of you who have traveled,
near or far, with little ones

SONG FOR THE FRONT SEAT...
(...)
..FOR THE BACK SEAT
(...)