Yes, that CBS piano
riff you hear every year during the telecast actual has words. Click
on the media player below to hear the actual song.
Even casual Masters viewers
have heard the CBS theme music countless times, but may not have known
that there are words that go with the soft tinkling piano melody to
"Augusta?" Dave Loggins, of "Please Come to Boston"
fame, wrote the song around 1980, with lyrics help from photographer Frank
Christian. They then took it to CBS, which now uses the instrumental
version extensively. The words are an ode to ever thing Augusta:
"Well, it's springtime in the valley on Magnolia Lane;
It's the Augusta National and
the master
of the game.
Who'll wear that green coat on
Sunday
afternoon?
Who'll walk that 18th fairway
singing
this tune?
"Augusta, your dogwoods
and pines,
they play on my mind like a song.
Augusta, it's you that I love,
it's you that I miss when I'm gone
"Well, it's Watson, Byron
Nelson,
and Demaret, and Player and Snead,
And it's Amen Corner,
and it's Hogan's perfect swing;
It's Sarazen's double eagle
at the 15th in '35,
And the spirit of Clifford
Roberts
that keeps it alive.
"Augusta, your dogwoods
and pines,
they play on my mind like a song.
Augusta, it's you that I love,
it's you that I miss when I'm gone.
"It's the legions of
Arnie's Army and the Golden Bear's
throng, Wooden-shafted legend, Bobby Jones."
