HT2688 I cannot drag and drop songs into a newly created playlist. I have other playlists that I have created but drag and drop no longer works

Almost all of my songs have become located in a My Music folder within the general library of the harddrive of my laptop and are no longer in itunes. When I try to play a song I get the message -  "The song could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to find it?"
This works but is impractical as it would take years import all of these songs back into itunes one at atime. How do I import all of the songs from the My Music library folder on my harddrive into itunes? Please help

Playlists are ones I have created, not smart Playlists
You can create either smart playlists (they are purple) or regular (blue) playlists.

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