There is a lovely song I heard about in a wonderful book called The Witch's Boy (Gruber), sung by a gypsy child in a tavern, that I wish were a real song but don't know if it is.

In it, a young man falls in love with a cruel mistress (I am tryng to quote) who asks him, as a token of his love, to kill his mother, cut out her heart, and bring it to her to eat. This the young man does, but as he is running back to his love with the bleeding heart in his hands, he trips and drops it. When it falls to the ground it cries out in his mother's voice, oh, my dear child, have you hurt yourself? This was the chorus of the song and the little girl sang it most plaintively, goes the story.

I love the song, though! Is it real? Anybody know it?