Deleting song off the iPod

On my iPod Touch, I have four duplicate songs that won't sync to my iTunes. That's fine, I don't want them to sync to my iTunes because they're already there. I do, however, want to delete them from my iPod. How can I do that?
TIA for any help!

There are a few ways to do this; here's my favorite.
Launch iTunes. Pull town the File menu, and select Duplicates. You'll see a list of the duplicate files on your drive. Now, highlight a file you want to delete, and press Delete. The system will ask you if you really want to delete the file; your answer is, Yes.
The desktop will still display the original file you wanted to keep. Of course, you probably won't want to delete that file.

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