text: Hazard\nRichard Marx\n\n"My mother came to Hazard when I was just seven\nEven then the folks in town said with prejudiced eyes...\nThat boy's not right...\nThree years ago when I came to know Mary\nFirst time that someone looked beyond the rumors and the lies\nAnd saw the man inside...\n\nWe used to walk down by the river\nShe loved to watch the sun go down\nWe used to walk along the river\nAnd dream our way out of this town...\n\nNo one understood what I felt for Mary\nNo one cared until the night she went out walking alone\nAnd never came home ...\nMan with a badge came knocking next morning\nHere was I surrounded by a thousand fingers suddenly\nPointed right at me...\n\nI swear I left her by the river\nI swear I left her safe and sound\nI need to make it to the river\nAnd leave this old Nebraska town\n\nI think about my life gone by\nHow its done me wrong\nThere's no escape for me this time\nAll of my rescues are gone, long gone\n\nI swear I left her by the river\nI swear I left her safe and sound\nI need to make it to the river\nAnd leave this old Nebraska town