Mary is depicted as having features very similar to those of the protagonist's mother. Several older men are seen teasing the protagonist as a child with his mother in the background. Suddenly the ghost of a woman is seen hovering over the creek. The music video opens with the protagonist cutting his hair by the side of a creek. The Sheriff is played by actor Robert Conrad. "Mary" is played by actress Renee Parent. The narrator also refers to the state of Nebraska, United States, and specifically a village in that state called Hazard. The music video for "Hazard", directed by Michael Haussman, reveals additional video cues and other details that led viewers to speculate about the question of the protagonist's innocence while still following the song's lyrics and ultimately leaving the outcome open to interpretation. Marx considered it a "stupid song that no one would pay attention to" and only recorded it to prove his wife wrong, who had told him it was going to be a huge hit song. (The lyrics refer to a river the real Hazard does not possess one, although there is a muddy creek.) Locals invited Marx to be Grand Marshal at Sherman County's Fourth of July parade in 1993, which he accepted. Liking the lyric "this old Nebraska town", Richard Marx wrote to the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce, asking for a list of Nebraska towns with two syllables, finding Hazard ideal for its double meaning. However, the narrator maintains his innocence throughout the song, and the matter of culpability is left open to the listener's interpretation. Mary disappears in suspicious circumstances, and the narrator, already shunned by many in the small village where he has lived since the age of seven ("That boy's not right"), is immediately considered the main suspect. "Hazard" tells the story of a relationship of some kind between the narrator and a woman named Mary. 1 in Australia, the top three in Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, and the top 10 in New Zealand, Norway, and Sweden. 9 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and shortly thereafter topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, becoming Marx's third number-one single on that chart.
"Hazard" was released as the second single from Marx's third studio album, Rush Street (1991), on January 28, 1992, in the United States.
The song's music video follows this plot. The song is about a woman named Mary who mysteriously disappears and a social pariah who is accused of orchestrating Mary's disappearance, despite claiming to be innocent.
" Hazard" is a song written, produced, and performed by American singer-songwriter Richard Marx.
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