Shambles and Genie dead right. If you've written it, sing it. Just make sure you think it's up to the same standard as everything else you're singing - don't give a song special privileges just bcos you (or a friend) wrote it. And if it has all the impact of a week-old haddock when you perform it, maybe it's not quite as good as you thought it was. ;-)

My way of protecting the public from any rubbish I produce is that I leave it a few weeks and then come back to it when the immediate attachment to the song has faded. I wrote one a few months back (based on the Lancashire myth of Peg o'Nell) - it seemed to write itself, and I was really impressed that I could do that. Then I looked at it the other day, and realised why it seemed to write itself - the fact that was a derivative load of balls was why! Hey ho, rewrite time.

Graham.