Example of Children's Verses

The verses They are compositions of a traditional, oral and popular character that are generally formed by stanzas of four verses, called quatrains. The verses deal with various themes and can have very different tones: humorous, satirical, picaresque, serious, etc.

The verses are mainly characterized by their relationship with music; they are mostly sung or accompanied by music. They are compositions that are part of the tradition and culture of a region and that are transmitted generationally.

The children's verses are those couplets whose topics and treatments can be read and understood by a child or youth audience. These verses do not deal with strictly child-oriented themes in all cases. There are some children's verses that are written with children's themessuch as games, animals, toys, or imaginary characters. On the other hand, There are also verses that are not necessarily children's themes but that have an innocent treatment or that can be playful and understandable for children. They can deal with love, life, different types of passions and feelings.

The verses in education can be very useful due to their brief and often playful nature. Children's verses have been used as a way to bring children closer to poetic compositions, culture, traditions, singing and rhymes.

Some children's songs are part of popular games for children, which are preserved by tradition from generation to generation. The couplets work as accompaniments that are sung while the game is being played. For example, the children's game called “A la rueda de San Miguel”, which is accompanied by the following couplet:

To the wheel, to the wheel of Saint Michael
Everyone brings their box of honey.
To the mature, to the mature
Let (child's name) turn like a donkey.

Also the children's verses They can be used to create riddles or other types of verbal games that do not need to be accompanied by physical activity. For example, the following couplet that is at the same time a riddle (the answer is “the river”):

Singing I forget my sorrows
as I go to the sea;
sorrows go and come back,
but I never come back.

45 Examples of children's verses:

1. "The lost apple"
—Mrs. Santa Ana
Why the child cries?
—For an apple
that has been lost.

—Don't cry for a
I will give you two;
go for them
to Saint John of God.

2. "I have a hand"
I have a hand,
I don't have a hand,
because I have it
deconchabadita.

3. Andale Luisa
Do not procrastinate
With the basket
of peanuts 

Come on Maria
Get out of the corner
With the basket
of the collation

Roasted chestnut,
Covered pineapple,
Throw sticks
To those at the door

Throw candies
And cannelloni
For the boys
That they are very greedy

I don't want nickel
I don't want money;
What i want
Is breaking the piñata

4. (Popular song used to split a piñata)

(Current version)

Give, give, give
Do not loose the focus
because if you lose it
you lose your way.

You already gave him one
you already gave him two,
you already gave him three
And your time is up

(Old version)

Give give give give
Do not loose the focus
because if you lose it
you lose your way

Give it, give it give it
give him and he didn't give him
remove the bandage
because I'm still

5. (Popular song used to split a piñata)

Green chestnut,
ripe pineapple,
give him sticks
to the hard pot.

Put down the piñata,
lower it a little,
fuck him
little by little.

I don't want gold
I don't want money
what i want
is breaking the piñata.

Come on girl
get out of the corner
with the basket
of the collation.

6. "Mr. Don Gato"

 There was Mr. Don Gato
sitting on his roof
marramiau, meow, meow
sitting on her roof.

He has received a letter
in case he wants to be married,
marramiau, meow, meow
in case he wants to be married.

With a white kitten
niece of a brown cat
marramiau, meow, meow
niece of a brown cat.

The cat for going to see her
she has fallen off the roof,
marramiau, meow, meow
has fallen off the roof

He has broken seven ribs,
the spine and the tail,
marramiau, meow, meow
the spine and the tail.

They already take him to bury
down the street of fish,
marramiau, meow, meow
down the street of the fish.

To the smell of sardines
the cat has risen,
marramiau, meow, meow
the cat has risen.

That's why people say
seven lives has a cat,
marramiau, meow, meow
seven lives has a cat.

7. This really is Christmas Eve
in which the Child God was born;
This really is Christmas Eve,
this one yes, that the others no.

8. When the popcorn
they go down to the water,
they all gather their peaks
and they spread the wing.

9. I have a doll
dressed in blue,
with her shirt
and her bodice.

I took her for a walk
and she constipated me,
I have it in bed
with a lot of pain.

This morning
the doctor told me,
give him syrup
with the fork.

Two plus two is four,
four and two are six,
six and two are eight,
and eight sixteen,

and eight twenty-four,
 and eight thirty two.
Blessed souls
I kneel.

10. They get small,
they get big;
make the wheel
the turkeys.

11. At the top of a cardón
sang three animals,
one looked like a sparrow
and the other cardinals;
Oh, how similar they are,
but they are never the same.

12. "The pájara paints"
I was the pajara pint
sitting in a lemon green.
With his beak he cut the branch,
with the branch he cut the flower.

 I kneel at the feet of my lover
I get up constant, constant.
Give me your hand, give me the other,
give me a little kiss on the mouth.

I'll turn around
I will go all the way around,
with a little step back,
bowing.

13. In the middle of the tree sings
the bird when it rains
and she sings with her throat
when her heart hurts;
also of pain is sung
when you can't cry

14. What good is it to the captive
have silver shackles
and the chains of gold
if freedom is lacking?

15. The bullet that wounded me
she also wounded the commander,
they made him captain
and me soldier as before.

16. Next to a lagoon
Don Puma was lying down,
smoking his cigarette
was wrong a sum.

17. The hen laid an egg
but he got it moved
from so much dancing bambuco
with the rooster dawned.

18. The light hare runs
the fox runs far behind.
How bad is the race
if you can't reach it!

19. "The goat"
The goat loose in the garden
he was eating basil.
Melissa ate after
and then mallow stalks.

She was white as cheese
as the moon was white.
Tired of eating herbs
he began to eat gorse.

No one saw her but God.
My heart watched her.
She kept eating
sage flowers and branches.

She started to bleat afterwards,
under the clear morning.
His bleat was in the air
a water that did not wet.

He went through the cool field,
mountain road.
She was perfumed with hollyhocks
the wind, when it blew.

20. The yellow ones flew
calandrias of the nopales;
now they will sing happily
the cardinal birds.

21. The moon comes out at night
the sun, on the other hand, during the day;
that's why the moon
live with a cold face.

22. Cinnamon owl,
big sunken eyes ...
You seem to be very serious!
Aren't you laughing, bandit?

23. Down that road,
quick, crossed a fox.
"Oh, what a nice tail!" I said.
And he saluted with the hat.

24. If you are looking for the owl,
in the mountain you will find it;
at midnight
he begins to curl up.

25. To the viper, viper
from the sea, from the sea
those from here can pass
those up front run a lot
and those behind will stay.

26. An elephant was swinging
on a spider web,
as I saw that it resisted
she went to call another elephant.

27. We have led to the chapel
roses and bluebells
promises, sadness and joys
and much love to Jesus and Mary.

28. White dove, golden beak,
that with your wings flying you go,
you pass the mountains, you pass the rivers,
you pass the waves of the wide sea.

 29. You who are wise
say, if you can answer:
With how many jars of honey
Is the sea water sweetened?

30. If you want me to love you
it will be with condition
let yours be mine
and mine yours not.

31. At three in the morning
I started hearing a cricket
he was very busy
sharpening her knife.

"That it is not time, Mr. Insect,
I said very angry.
in any case the roast
she saves it for tomorrow.

—It's not my business about food
—She answered me like that, without joking,
—It is something very serious,
theme of love and revenge.

I was very sleepy
and I didn't want to ask him.
But he was wanting
of his sadness to narrate to me.

It turns out that the cicada
that she had fallen in love with him
suddenly he went on tour
with the beetle orchestra.

And the cricket was thinking
what if he didn't come back soon
alone he would face
with which he played the bass drum.

I couldn't convince him
he didn't want to hear my reasons.
That words are useless
when hearts speak.

I went to sleep, or to try,
leaving him with his grief.
And the cricket continued to suffer
under the fullest moon.

32. Doña Blanca is covered
With pillars of gold and silver.
We will break a pillar 
To see Dona Blanca.

Who is that jicotillo
What is after doña Blanca?
I am that jicotillo that walks 
In pursuit of Dona Blanca.

33. Your brown eyes
They look like you,
because they blink
like a hummingbird.

34.  At the top of that hill
there is an ant on the cliff:
a hip has slipped
and he has broken his knee.

 35. They all tell me that I adore
a flower of bad color;
let the world say what it wants,
that looks like a sun to me.

36. Rice pudding
I want to get married
With a lady
of San Nicolás

Who knows how to sew
That she knows how to embroider
Who knows how to open the door
to go play

I am the widow
from the King's neighborhood
I want to get married
and I don't know with whom

With this yes
not with this
with this lady
i'm getting married

37. Good night my good
let your sleep be calm
sleep happy child
my love watches over you 

If the lord wants it
the summer morning
wake up my good
with a ray of sunshine

38. "The widowed cat" 

When the moon
she gets big
like a ball
and lights up the alley.

You hear the meow
of the sad widowed cat
and its hairy back
bristles with horror.

But not missing
who sends a shoe
get shot
to take away the garish.

And on the eaves
of the mystical roof
the cat has complained
singing this song.

39. My father sends my mother,
my mother sends me,
I send my brothers
and everyone rules here.

More like nobody obeys
we prefer to talk
to reach an agreement
what to send and what to abide by.

40. A painter can paint
a rose and a carnation,
but he can't paint
the love of a woman.

41. In the plaza of hope,
and in the park of life,
we enjoy the morning,
they all play, nobody looks.

I run and jump among the people,
when I play with my friend,
I also think and have fun,
I enjoy the challenges.

42. Yesterday I passed by your house
and you threw me a light bulb,
of so many ideas that I had,
my little light lit up.

Yesterday I called your ranch
the answering machine answered me,
to that guarango parrot,
I wish him the worst

Yesterday I passed by your house
and you threw me a flower ...
next time it happens,
No pot please!

43. I am weaving on the loom
strands of my sorrows
and that's how they pass me by
with the nights and the days.

44. Oranges and limes,
limes and lemons,
the virgin is prettier
than all the flowers.

 45. Walk shepherds,
let's go to Bethlehem
to see the Virgin
and the child too.