I have authorised song to the iPod without success. Any ideas?

I am unable to transfer purchased songs on my new computer to my iPod. I have authorised the new computer and also tried to drag the song over to the iPod without success. A message does appear "The iPod is synced with another i tunes library. Do you want to erase this iPod and sync with this i tunes library". Obviously I don't want to lose everything on the iPod which is what will happen if I say yes. Any ideas?

Your iPod can only be synced with one computer at a time (unless you manually manage your iPod's contents).  If you try to sync the iPod with a new/different iTunes library, everything will be erased from the iPod and replaced with the content that is in the new/different iTunes ilbrary.
So what you will want to do is copy everything from your iPod over to your new library first.  Then choose the Erase and Sync option or restore your iPod to factory settings and sync everything back over to it. See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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