Help restoring deleted files into iTunes

I was overzelaous in trying to delete about 3000 duplicate songs. I was advised by tech support to move all the titles that were listed in the "show duplicate songs" option in iTunes only to find out that I inadvertently deleted the original copy too! I tried to select them from my trash to drag and drop them into my iTunes library bbut that won't work. I can't re-import from my source files on my external drive because the master files are now in the trash. I thought about moving the trashed files into my external drive and re-importing from there but I assume the restored songs will then be un-grouped with the 'master" artist folders? Anyone have some suggestions?

Drag your files to the desk top - then once they are there you should be able to drop them back into the iTunes window. I tried to drag directly to iTunes from the trash and it would not work. I put the file on the desktop and then moved back into the iTunes window and that did work for me.
MJ

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