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What we're after here is the song title or the work it was within, then the artist[s] or composer.  It's a cooperative effort rather than a competition:

1.  When you were a young boy, did you have a puppy, that always followed you around?

2.  When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother, what will I be, will I be pretty, will I be rich, here's what she said to me ...

3.  “I speak of love awake I speak of love in my dreams, to the water, the shadows, the mountains, to the flowers, the grass, the fountains.”

4.  I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical.

5.  You're talking to a tourist, whose every move's among the purest, I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.

6.  She said, 'There is no reason,' and the truth is plain to see, but I wandered through my playing cards, would not let her be.

7.  “And the stars were shining, and the earth was scented; the gate of the garden creaked and a footstep grazed the sand ... fragrant, she entered and fell into my arms.”

8.  If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, it's just a spring clean for the May Queen. Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on.

9.  But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver, bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step.

10.  Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, flowing into the night? People so busy, make me feel dizzy, taxi light shines so bright.

11.  ... and he sat down next to me and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?"  And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench.

12.  Words, words, words, I'm so sick of words. I get words all day through - first from him, now from you, is that all you blighters can do?