Richard Marx – Hazard (Ukulele)

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My mother came to Hazard when I was just seven

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Even then the folks in town said with prejudiced eyes

     B
That boy's not right

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Three years ago when I came to know Mary

                                        A
First time that someone looked beyond the rumors and the lies

            B
And saw the man inside

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We used to walk down by the river

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She loved to watch the sun go down

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We used to walk along the river

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And dream our way out of this town

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No one understood what I felt for Mary

                                          A
No one cared until the night she went out walking alone

     B
And never came home

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Men with a badge came knocking next morning

                                    A
Here was I surrounded by a thousand fingers suddenly

         B
Pointed right at me

  D                       A
I swear I left her by the river

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I swear I left her safe and sound

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I need to make it to the river

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And leave this old Nebraska town

E
I think about my life going by

D                    A
And how it's done me wrong

E
There's no escape for me this time

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All of my rescues are gone,     long gone

  D                       A
I swear I left her by the river

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I swear I left her safe and sound

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I need to make it to the river

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And leave this old Nebraska town