Delete song from music app

I have "show all music" turned OFF, but 1 song remains on my iphone and I cannot delete it. It does NOT appear in itunes. My computer is a PC using Windows Pro 7.1. My iphone uses IOS 7.1.2

Some downloads are stubborn -- try connecting to iTunes and if your iPhone is not set to "Manually manage music and video" then enable and apply that option.  Then while connected to iTunes, navigate through the iPhone contents (via iTunes) to locate the song and see if you can delete it.  Then return to auto-sync mode (if that's how it was previously set).

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