Digitrad has the correct version, it looks like, except for a line which should read
"Such symbols as cuckoos and valleys so deep."

I have not sung it for a while, but I have fallen into the habit of singing "the plot's so complex that it staggers the brain" instead of "the characters' motives ...".
Also
"And after the sex comes some blood and some gore
With murder and stabbings and bodies galore."

I seem to have folk-processed my own song! Have fun, whichever way you sing it.

Needless to say, I'm always happy to hear of or from people singing and enjoying anything I wrote, and think it's fun when it comes back to me after many days and many changes (as "In the beginning" did - it was/is a prose recitation, but someone even made a song out of it.)

Since my songbook was mentioned, anyone who wants a soft copy has only to write me at dov@pobox.com - it's in Microsoft Word, but I can convert to text if necessary. Alas, not every entry is a masterpiece, and you get to make up your own tunes for any that I didn't steal a trad tune for - but the price is right.