ITunes deleting song of the same name

Hi,
So I recently purchased a couple of Paul McCartney albums (Tug of War and Give my regards to Broad Street). These albums both contain the song 'Wanderlus', however both versions are slightly different and I'd like to have them both.
Trouble is, when I bought the 2nd of the two albums, the first version of wanderlust was removed from my iPhone. I can still see the song in my iTunes library in the section 'Songs not on this iPhone', but if I try to download that then the other song disappears....
Anyone know what I can do to get both songs on my phone?
Thank you.

iTunes is certainly supposed to be able to handle multiple versions of the same song. Looking up the song Wanderlust on those albums there does seem to be at least three different studio cuts of it. Are you sure the iPhone downloads different versions? I'm not certain, but there is a possibility that when iTunes delivers content that appears on multiple albums it might have one source for the audio data and attach the appropriate meta-data on delivery. This would be a particularly useful feature when the songs need localised names in different regions. If so it is possible that it is delivering the "same" tracks which might explain why one replaces the other.
I suspect you may have to resolve this in iTunes rather than on the iPhone as you can always delete one version of the track, download the other, then add back the deleted version. Once you have both in your library you should be able to sync them to your phone.
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