How do you delete duplicate songs in your iTunes Music Library?

I just replaced a new hard drive and had to re-install iTunes and it imported my My Music from my external which had the iTunes Library saved in that as well, but now I have like 4 copies of each song!!!
How can I delete the duplicates so I have one of each song?
Thanks!

Thank  you for the response , but I know you can do that -  I have thousands of SONGS and that would be tedious and take me forever.
LJ

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