Here's one for all those songwriters and people who are interested in songwriting here. I was at a Pete Morton gig a few weeks ago, and he said, "This is a serious song..." and then corrected himself with, "That's nonsense! All my songs are serious." The sentence stuck in my mind, because it sums him up well.
Nobody who knows Pete would describe him as humourless, yet he is never frivolous just for the sake of it. He writes serious songs which sometimes contain funny lines. I would write a song for no better reason than that it simply made me giggle. Pete would never do that - and it's fair enough.
Listening to Rick Fielding's, "If Jesus Was a Picker", I don't think he wanted to do much more than have fun with some puns. I wonder how many Mudcatters would eschew writing silly songs as a matter of principle?