The lyrics are most likely written by the team of screenwriters that were involved in the show, but that's just my guess. I don't think you'll be able to get a definite answer without actually asking someone on the show since there doesn't seem to be any information about this online, and I can't recall hearing, or seeing anything about it on the "behind the scenes" footage or in the interviews that comes with the DVD box set. Though, the fact that most songs are about or at least related to things that happens in the episodes in which they're performed strengthens this theory.
What is mentioned in the DVD extras, though, is that the melodies and the chords are all, or at least partly made up by Lisa Kudrow.
UPDATE
Having done some digging, I managed to find these two Friends CDs:
Album: Friends
Snowman/Ashes/Dead Mother medley
Lyrics by Adam Chase (Friends Producer/Writer), Ira Ungerleider (Friends Producer/Writer)
Music by Lisa Kudrow
Album: Friends - Again
Smelly Cat
Written by Adam Chase, Betsy Borns (Friends Writer), Chrissy Hynde, Lisa Kudrow
The song credits posted above proves that the producers/writers of Friends were the ones writing Phoebe Buffay's songs, with the exception of "Smelly Cat" which Lisa Kudrow and Chrissy Hynde (the frontwoman of The Pretenders) seems to have been at least partly responsible for.
Sure, these are only two songs, but I see no reason why the rest would be any different.
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