Songs My Mother Taught Me. (Czech: Když mi stará matka (babička?) zpívá, German: Als die alte Mutter sang), is the title of a song by Antonín Dvořák which forms part of his Gypsy Songs cycle, (Cigánské melodie, B. 104/4, Op. 55/4), written for voice and piano in 1880. They are set to poems by Adolf Heyduk in German.
The song has been famously recorded by Magdalena Kožená, Nellie Melba, Jeanette MacDonald, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Victoria de los Angeles, Joan Sutherland, Paul Robeson, Angela Gheorghiu and Renée Fleming. It is also featured on the album Charlotte Church'
The title Songs My Mother Taught Me has frequently been used by singers in recitals or on recital discs, even when the song itself is not included in the recording.
Fritz Kreisler transcribed the song for violin and piano and performed it frequently. It was first published in 1914.
Canciones que mi madre me enseñó.
