If my songs were deleted, can they be retrieved?

can songs that were deleted be retrieved?

In general when anything is deleted from a hard drive the data remains in place until the space it occupied is used to store another file. There are tools that can scan the drive and often reconstruct such lost data. Prices range from free to very expensive, but you might find something that works, for example the free unsupported version of Recuva might be all you need to recover lost files.
Assuming you can find the files that were on the drive you're going to need some more help to turn them back into an iTunes library. See the link to the iLounge Article at the end of Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device. Basically you need to extract the media files that will be stored with files named with four random letters and a media type file extension, then import these into an iTunes library. Anything properly tagged can be renamed into artist and album folders.
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