Haven't spotted Steve Ashley's magisterial Fire and Wine yet. Not srictly a solstice song but one of the best songs ever.

Blatant advert: Steve's on with Dik Cadbury at Farnsfield Acoustic nr Sherwood Forest, UK 12th Jan 2008.

Winter's coming,
We live a shorter day.
The sun is hunting
For a place to stay.
And Jack Frost's fingers
Are in the wind again.

Ragged Robin is see-sawin'
In one half of a coconut shell.
He can't find the bacon rind,
Hunger makes his red breast swell.

Chorus (after each verse):
Now is the time for fire and wine,
Fire for the body and wine for the mind.
We will sing and play till break of day,
And we will sing the frost away.

Cold October bowls me over,
Damp November makes me sneeze,
Then December cruelly sends the
Winter frost to freeze my knees.

Winter brings us to the singers
And the drinkers glass in hand.
Roll up smokers, cards and jokers,
Listeners all who sit and stand.

(Sorry, the smokers will have to stand in the porch)