The Toledo War

The CBS Radio Workshop dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mind. Tonight the Toledo War, a new opera performed for the first time, with words by Edward Eager and music composed and conducted by David Brookman.

It was an 1835 when Michigan was still a territory that the young governor, Stevens As Thompson Mason claimed that a strip of land, including the town of Toledo, rightfully belonged to Michigan. But some people in Ohio thought differently, and so it was war, the first war between the states.

Exactly what happened isn't too clear. But it might have been something like this. Just tell us all men strike poker, and we're here to show you you. And you will have to take onward That always a is true We'll come The soft began to fly, oh We take you to the happy home

Of Pedro, Judge, Phineas, Mustian And his wife, Permelya, Fustian And his daughter, Annabelle, Fustian Of Toledo Oh, I, oh The three news of war cells are in According to the latest thing we need Now, Michigan have me complete Our town is in the state We said, so now it's heavy, still, and they might grow it

They're planning to invade us from the shore To stink me, are you ready to go for it? And God is from His renews of the Lord, And battle to the joy of To keep our city safe for me, she go to rise.

You, your force is ready. Well, I've tried. My brothers were the only ones who came. But we will guard you safely all the same. They're waiting just outside the door. My brother won, my brother three, my brother four.