This lullaby is from the 16th century.

Notes

Here is another verse found in "Cantos populares españoles" by Francisco Rodríguez Marín (1882):

A tôs los niños güenos* (All the good children)
Dios los bendice (God bless them)
Y á los que son malos (And to the ones who are naughty)
Les da lombrices. (He gives them worms.)

*tôs (sic) is "todos", güenos is "buenos".
"lombrices" here are intestinal worms.

I respected the original spelling though one edition gives "á" in the 3rd line and another spells it "a" without the accent. – Monique

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Recording by Monique Palomares.

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Thanks and Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Monique Palomares for contributing and translating this song (with Lisa) and for creating the midi music and illustration.

¡Muchas gracias!