They Don't Make Girls the Same The background of this piece is explained in the article Antihymeneal Hymns.  Yours truly, T. Buckingham Thomas, wrote the words in 1964 — in pencil on a legal pad — to music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach more than three centuries before. "T.T.B.B" means that my arrangement is for a male quartet, two tenors (upper score) and two basses (second score).  The remaining two scores are for the accompanying piano or harpsichord.    The peculiar mark after the second full measure, the Segno, indicates where the repeat will begin. 2nda volta al Coda means that on the second time through (the repeat), the performers should jump from this point to the concluding five measures, the Coda at the end of this manuscript. Here dal Segno indicates that the performers should jump back to the mark near the beginning and repeat the first part of the song.  Perhaps it would be better at tutti (just above) for the soloist to be tacet for two measures while the other three voices in turn wistfully sing "Once they were."  "Once they were."  "Once they were."