7 year old synced his iPod to my Mac...My songs are gone

My 7 year old nephew synced his iPod with my iMac and now only his songs are there and mine are gone.
In the "Music" it shows them but they are no longer on my HD.
Is there a way to recover the songs I purchased? So I can get them back...?
Thanks for the help!

Don't know why your songs in iTunes wiuld be missing.
At most, it should have erased his iPod and put your songs on it.
have you looked in /Music/iTunes/iTunes media/folder for your songs?
My guess you have neglected to perform regular backups?
Do you have the songs on an iPod?

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Thank you for all the supports and answers.
But I have a new problem here.
I connected my ipod to my mac and turned on the itunes.
And I still haven't done anything to my ipod. (haven't re-synced or tried to fix my problem. my situation is same as my original post says,)
I clicked 'my ipod's music'section on itunes' sidebar.
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