Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Donovan Lyrics

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Color in sky, prussian blue
Scarlet fleece changes hue
Crimson ball sinks from view
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love)

Lord, kiss me once more

Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love)
La-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la

Color sky, havana lake
Color sky, rose carmethene
Alizarin crimson
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love)

Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love)
La-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la

Cannot believe what I see
All I have wished for will be
All our race proud and free
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love)

Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love like)

Wear my love like heaven (wear my love)
Carmine, carmine

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Donovan's song "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" paint a vivid picture of a truly psychedelic experience. The song begins by describing the changing colors of the sky, with "prussian blue" and "scarlet fleece" turning to "alizarin crimson" and "havana lake." The singer encourages the listener to "wear your love like heaven," repeating the phrase throughout the song.

The chorus is followed by a plea to a higher power to "kiss me once more / fill me with song," with both "Lord" and "Allah" being invoked. The singer then repeats the mantra of "wear my love like heaven" before the final verse, which speaks of a hopeful future where "all our race [is] proud and free."

The song is clearly influenced by the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, and it captures a sense of wonder and mysticism that was prevalent in that era. The repetition of the phrase "wear your love like heaven" can be seen as a call to embrace love and positivity in one's life, and the vivid descriptions of nature suggest a connection between the spiritual and the natural worlds.

Line by Line Meaning

Color in sky, prussian blue
The sky is a beautiful shade of prussian blue.

Scarlet fleece changes hue
The red wool changes color depending on the angle of the light.

Crimson ball sinks from view
The sun sets and disappears over the horizon.

Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Love should be worn proudly, like a heavenly garment.

Lord, kiss me once more Fill me with song Allah, kiss me once more That I may, that I may Wear my love like heaven (wear my love like)
May the divine fill me with love so that I may wear it like a heavenly garment.

Color sky, havana lake Color sky, rose carmethene Alizarin crimson
The sky is a mix of different colors, including havana lake, rose carmethene, and alizarin crimson.

Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Love should be worn proudly, like a heavenly garment.

Cannot believe what I see All I have wished for will be All our race proud and free Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
I can hardly believe my eyes - my dreams are coming true and my people will be proud and free. Let us wear love like a heavenly garment.

Carmine, carmine
A repetition of the color carmine, possibly to reinforce the idea of wearing love like a garment.

Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
Written by: DONOVAN LEITCH

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@naylameyrizkan8901

3y↑151

Color in sky, Prussian blue
Scarlet fleece changes hue
Crimson ball sinks from view
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love)

Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love)
La-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la

Color sky, Havana lake
Color sky, rose carmethene
Alizarin crimson
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love)

Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love)
La-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la

Cannot believe what I see
All I have wished for will be
All our race proud and free
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love)

Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love)
Carmine
Carmine

All comments from YouTube:

@daisywares1

2y↑357

If you aren't old enough to remember, or just don't remember what the 60s felt like....it felt like THIS

@gaychiappetta5817

2y↑7

You are so right.

@karldubelheimer3959

2y↑11

How about black people. Did the 60s feel like this to them, too?

@uglitor

2y↑29

@@karldubelheimer3959 Go ask them.

@gaychiappetta5817

2y↑34

@@karldubelheimer3959 Seriously, does everything have to be about race, always? JFC.

@adriennekushner2492

2y↑14

Yes it did!

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@chrisc8865

11w↑8

This song I believe came out in 1966 I was 8. Years old, and I remember this song like it was yesterday. Music is so soothing to the soul and it's so comforting. Everyone needs to remember that❤❤❤❤❤

@TheDavidtk240

2y↑120

55 years later and it's still delightful. Thank You.

@fonzieskatesurf

Wow im 46, 2023

@reneharde3459

38w↑1

Always wished it was longer, but I can always hit repeat!

@martinkent333

15w

BUBBLE GUM POP FOR KIDS................................. STILL WORKS, EH?

@JOLENE2008

45w↑18

you know? the radio won't play classics like this anymore? but? Thanks to YOUTUBE I can play this to my heart's content🥰

@pennypay1

44w↑2

Yep, I heard Van Halen's "Jump" on K-Earth 101 the other day. I know that's old enough to be considered an oldie now...but it sure makes me feel old. And 'regular' radio no longer risks playing most songs from the 60's (or any decade, really) which didn't get much airplay once they fell off the Billboard charts. Their library is too limited and it's annoying, especially if I don't want to pay for satellite radio. That's why I love YouTube too- I can play these treasures any time.

@yelizaveta1278

41w↑1

These are the times whereknew it'd lead eventually. Dialing through the AM/FM , in vain for years ,it's apparent what all is phased out ( it's not "merely or just" radio. It MATTERS to us , shaped us.)
Womp womp :/ I too use YouTube 2music . .much deeper catalog.
I hope it's not shoved off into digital satellite sources with pay contracts,anyway . (For a few reasons..) 🎶😊

@cdog9559

27w↑1

Hi Jolene ...when this came out there was a shampoo commercial with Catherine Deneuve and this was the backing song. What a song......and what eyes.

@StevenBlaugh-zt8gn

24w

@@pennypay1I do agree with what you write and want to add that You Tube has turned our cell phones into miniature juke boxes! No money needed.

@flyinfree3912

8w↑1

Modern radio won't play this as he actually enunciates as he sings. You can understand it. It's not pummeling your eardrums. Sad days, indeed.

@jamesriendeau128

38w↑4

I have never met a woman who didn't love this song......

@fumingriley

3y↑480

this is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard

@Bungerfan

3y↑3

Is it still yhe most beautiful song you've ever heard?

@SpikeAsks

3y↑2

I Feel That Way About "To Susan On The West Coast." Peace

@marlist1

3y↑9

Cool song still. Liked since a child.

@xxxsaraHelloxxx

3y↑11

I adore this🌹🌹🌹 I’m 58 and just discovered this a year ago. Always late to the party

@cesarcesar8545

3y↑2

@@xxxsaraHelloxxx Hi Mary if you dont mind What were you into musically ? i too adore this one so much and i am lucky to have an older brother, i have such a huge list of music from Donovan to Led Zepp to Kate Bush and all in between :)

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@fredflintstone2958

6y↑67

Nothing wrong with being an old hippie. I've not heard this song for many years when I found it referenced, elsewhere. It still has the magic....

@nbenefiel

44w↑2

I’m an old hippie too. I still love the music of the 60’s and early 70’s.

@ElizabethBowden-hr3nq

43w

❤

@tonyde52

33w↑2

@@nbenefiel Born in 1952 I wear my HIPPIE stripes PROUDLY !

@nbenefiel

33w↑2

@@tonyde52 I was born in 51. I used to make absolutely gorgeous hippie clothes, velvet vests and tunics, embroidered bell bottoms, white batiste bloused with layers of ribbon and insertion, Gunnesax style dresses. Of course my hair was the required waist length and I wore tons of eye makeup and nothing else. Those were the days.

@wealleyjr1715

2y↑71

Donovan is the spirit of the pensive, penetrative, 60s. I give him lots of airplay!

@fshoaps

42w

Nope! That man is John Winston Lennon.

@drhust1955

7y↑596

Most underrated musician ever.✌🏻️✌🏻✌🏻

@Pkatherstudio

6y↑13

Best interview...He taught George Harrison a few things.

@mercurialmagictrees

6y↑23

yeah I think so because he did score a lot of big hits but he isn't mentioned in the big summaries about 60s music.

@captchrispike

6y↑25

You have to realize that at that time, Donovan was as big as all four Beatles together!

@kimforsyth9585

6y↑2

I agree

@653j521

6y↑9

Zero Ohms In the US? No, he wasn't.

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@alexziggyful

2y↑14

If we could only get back to those love inspired days, when people were attempting to change the world into a world of humanity, peace and love and the preservation of the planet. It all went to crap so quickly. :(

@JBarr-lw6kp

Well, no, they weren't trying to change the world into a world of humanity bla bla bla. They were cutting class, taking drugs and screwing. And cutting class. And it was fantastic. And it will never, never happen again.

@michaelhinojosa8898

3y↑35

Recorded at Anaheim Convention Center.
I was there
It was the most mystical experience.
He cast a wonderful musical spell over the audience, taking us on a journey to a beautiful, poetic, world of love

@etcetc6427

33w↑2

Groovy. If I only had a time machine
..

@Lyndanet

21w↑2

Or a hot tub 😂

@MrRobertjschoen

2y↑31

I was turned on to Donovan by my brother when he brought home Donovans 5th album released in December of 1967 " A gift of a flower to a garden " I was 16. I was blessed to see him at Madison Square Garden in October 17, 1969, Donovan carried on to the stage set in the Center of the arena floor and covered with white rose pedals. A beautiful show a talented underrated artist and a loving crowd. A special night.

@darkskull5896

2y↑1

Fantastic memory. Im beyond envious.

@MsJustkat

2y↑1

I was at that concert at Madison Square Garden, in 1969. I was 16. Great concert!!!!

@tronagraves5537

1y↑20

WOW, JUST WOW, WISH WE STILL HAD MUSIC LIKE THIS !!! GLAD I WAS THERE TO HEAR IT !!!

@r.p.mcmurphy6623

ALL CAPS SUCK - VERY RUDE

@tronagraves5537

@@r.p.mcmurphy6623 what is wrong with you ??

@catchinbass86

5y↑148

One of the greatest songs of the 60's

@TheDoof1

3y↑3

Way up there with forgotten gem In the Year 2525 by forgotten one-hit wonders Zager & Evans.

@flipperdunkprettyhighscore

3y↑20

Being baked and listening to this just feels right

@LastTrainToClarkson

7y↑201

This song is the ultimate gift from a flower to a garden.

@alexanderrodriguez7917

Yeah!

@rodneybaker2643

42w

And that was one amazing album-come all you starry starfish,,,, ! Oh the music oh the times 👌🙏😁☮️

@thelowe6393

2y↑52

Such a cool 60's song. I was a kid when this song hit and it floods my head with specific memories of hanging out and playing records with my older, hot, hippy cousin and a couple of her girlfriends. She was/is a real sweetheart and she never treated me like a little kid, and we always had great times together.
Sidenote: That's Donovan on Alice Cooper's "Billion Dollar Baby," repeating the bridge line; "We go dancing nightly in the attic..."

@patrickphilip777

Did y'all hang out Alabama style

@thelowe6393

@@patrickphilip777 Sounds like you've had experience with that.

@raddmann336

2y↑23

Was pretty surprised this song only reached #23 on the US charts. It’s a perfect pop song to me.

@BenLapke

1y↑7

To be fair, the competition was pretty good in the’60s.

@robertthacher-ro6bh

1y↑3

It was too profound at the time!

@blueridgepics

50w↑1

Maybe so but they sure played it plenty on the radio. It was even the song featured on a cosmetic commercial.

@yarazooom

4y↑132

'66 SF saw him LIVE & never was the same. a sit-down show with him & sitar in a boat draped with colored silks. whole room thick with incense. electric Blue-eyed Angel who transported the whole room to Heaven psychedelisized me BEFORE LSD.

@rickfries7579

4y↑7

what an experience that was - thanks for sharing

@richardalbert7971

4y↑5

Saw him in '70...had him on this lazy Susan thing and kept spinning him around.Great show and he was funny as well.

@Eidann63

4y↑7

Thanks to all of you. I was there as well.. people now have no idea how timely and talented/unique and on spot he was in the 60s. So many memories with his songs. ✌❤🌸

@lefeuviolet

I appreciate you sharing this lovely story with the world, brother <3 Donovan is the truth

@kennethkuk4351

2y↑2

Had cats, music like this all my life, 64 years of age on Turkey day Nov 25. Retired EE for 7 years. Talk about the power of the number..

@violetsky2225

5y↑153

saw donovan at heathrow airport in london 1969 playing for tips in his hat. he was so cool

@almapendergrass7810

4y↑8

wow

@blengdiabloed7335

4y↑19

well back then musicians create masterpieces because they are fueled by passion. passion and creativity nowadays are so rare

@almapendergrass7810

3y↑4

wow

@camillecloudflower7653

3y↑6

I've been his fan for decades
He was past us in many ways

@kynanverwimp847

3y↑3

@@blengdiabloed7335 Only if you don't look further than pop.

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@gregoryfasula2260

2y↑59

Really hits me deeply as a spiritual song.

@kriggs7

2y↑5

I don't know that the great underrated artist Donovan knew that he had created such a fantastically crafted song like he did, with this one!

@robertthacher-ro6bh

1y↑3

@@kriggs7 Indeed!

@Shah-of-the-Shinebox

5y↑19

A trippy masterpiece from a most underrated and almost forgotten british artist

@christopherorjuela570

4y↑5

agreed, however, Donovan is Scottish. But you are right since many Scots identify as Brits in some degrees.

@breeeegs

Almost forgotten? Donovan is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame dude. I think you need to go home and get your f**kin shinebox.

@robertogonzalestheworm4936

1y↑12

One of the best songs ever written in human history

@soulassassin0g

3y↑3

"That saxophone would make a great pipe."

@2ghetto4greyhound55

3y↑1

Looks like my dab rig🎷😤🤘

@waski672

2y↑8

Last week the melody of this song ran thru my head. I was a child when this song was released, I remembered it because my oldest brother 9 years older than I, would play it. I’ve never known who wrote,or performed it,or the name of the song. My search is over, for this one at least.

@quickdrawmcgraw9881

32w↑18

Song still hits the spot

@laurayarbrough4646

1y↑30

That’s one of the sweetest songs I’ve ever heard.

@davidconnor9978

Hi.. Laura

@robertthacher-ro6bh

1y↑1

I agree!

@donaldwigglesworth5885

25w↑5

This sound has its own brand of timelessness. I think it would be right at home in the recent experimental music scene.

@martinkent333

15w

DRUGGY HEAVEN?

@gurusoft1

3y↑59

Donovan wrote over 50 masterpieces; a vast achievement.

@jamestravenetti7970

2y↑12

Actually, one of the first psychedelic songs ever written.

@r.p.mcmurphy6623

Actually, ALL his songs were the first psychedelic songs ever written.

@robertthacher-ro6bh

1y↑1

In many ways it is. Then came The Hurdy Gurdy Man

@toddsaedify

4y↑36

saw him in Santa Monica doing a solo concert, with my sister, she is gone sixteen years now, we both had an out of body experience together floating around the ceiling

@toddsaedify

4y↑8

about fifteen years that is since the sister passed from ovarian cancer that is, leaving four kids, one got Phi Beta Kappa at the University of California, Santa Cruz, my alma mater, and one graduated Mills College, the UCSC grad has music videos now too, was top of her department, and teaches underprivileged kids in New Orleans

@Lugh444

3y↑1

I've had some beautiful experiences on psychedelics where it felt like another person and I have transcended our bodies.
Was this LSD?

Sorry to hear about the loss of your sister, but she sounds like a wonderful person.

@lefeuviolet

3y↑2

That's really beautiful <3

@lindafoppianoforis1879

3y↑39

Best Version of
Song. My best friend & I skipped down the street
singing this song 💓
Some of the best days of my
Life

@sktzi9825

❤

@kevinharrington2078

cool image in my head, and they were great days

@robertthacher2660

Our youth were the best days of our life

@robertthacher-ro6bh

Just how I remember my youth!

@CondescendingOaf

3y↑31

Out of no where this song popped into my head today. I haven't heard it in years - and forgot the title, but I knew I could find it here on YT. 👍✌🎶🙂

@robertsmolarek7671

34w↑1

That was my problem, I did not know the title to this song, was searching for years!

@vickielawson3114

2y↑11

I discovered Donovan’s Greatest Hits when my friend’s dad gave him a reel-to-reel deck and tape reels in 1992. We were 14. This was on it. This and Lalena made me fall in love with him. He’s great.

@robertthacher2660

1y↑1

Lelana is great. So was this. I was 14 too

@KevinLopez-jf5ys

3y↑16

"I just realized, I am the 'Ow' in the word 'now'"

@rod1148

6y↑169

I remember this song from 50 years ago. So much great music from 1967-68.

@anonymoose9315

5y↑11

Your music from the 60s and 70s is still popular with your children and grandchildren. I was born in 86' and my cousins were born in the early 2000s and we love this music.

@thecure737

Yesss

@contenderbp

3y↑2

I was 9 years old and this song and the rest of the music and lyrics by too many artist to name.transformed me. All there to offer was am radio with 1 speaker and that’s we needed

@dennismurillodennis3079

17w

This was my introduction to soft rock.

@itsaMoogle

2y↑2

Man, that saxophone would make a great pipe

@myjimdandy

2y↑15

Beautiful song. The memories it brings.

@jorgeespinosa3179

3y↑21

I remember saving up to purchase my first Donovan LP. That was decades ago.
He was extremely popular.

@jettrink7510

5y↑17

Thank you Lord and Jesus for helping me in the day to day chores... and appreciate all you people who enjoy gentle, loving music

@sharonparadis416

4y↑7

this never gets old

@donovan195

Don't be surprised ok, it's true I don't usually do this. But the pandemic has really tore everything apart leaving lots of people depressed and sad. That's why am pasting my personal email address here via: donovan00125@gmail.com to enable you share your opinions about my songs or send personal message you wish to share with me. I can't still appreciate everyone of you enough for the unconditional love and massive supports ❤️ it's because of you am here today. I hope you won't stop listening and supporting my songs.

@KidFresh71

1y↑3

Even though I was born in 1971, this song reminds me of my childhood. Hippy times were good times.

@snakey934Snakeybakey

4y↑16

Love that Glorious Scottish accent in this song!

@thecure737

Is that what it is? I had no idea, I'm terrible with accents, I thought he was English!!?

@snakey934Snakeybakey

4y↑1

@@thecure737 yes, he is Scottish

@Lugh444

It's tricky too cause Donovan is an Irish name

@237dman

That's always stood out to me in this song too! When he says crimson 🎵🍄

@globalheartwarming

@@Lugh444 His grandmothers were Irish. --Wikipedia

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@ericahaszit

3y↑4

Ill never forget listening to this song with you uncle rest in love 💔

@globalheartwarming

2y↑1

Erica Rueda I'm sorry for your loss ❤️ I like rest in love ❣️ will say that for my father 💕

@GuitarlosCarlos

33w↑1

I WAS 17 WHEN THIS SONG CAME OUT
I WOULD SING THIS SONG FOR HOURS

@almapendergrass7810

4y↑13

Holy. Clean. Pure. Happy. No drugs. Me. 10 years old. What joy.

@markmerzweiler909

Plenty of drugs went into that music!

@snalxx1100

I'm ten too

@evanwolf6618

🦘 . . . . . . .

stay fresh

🦨💨 😷🙊

@donovan195

@BridgetR72

2y↑10

Favorite song by Donovan. Used in the Love cosmetics ad campaigns in the late 60's, early 70's. Very effective.

@richardedesroches5825

1y↑1

I remember seeing those commercials and hearing this song while watching Hullabaloo on tv!!!

@markmerzweiler

You're right! I totally forgot that!

@naylameyrizkan8901

3y↑151

@lexiev1250

3y↑7

Congrats with the song lyrics, Nayla

@ladylake995

2y↑5

Thank you!

@soncielass

2y↑3

thank you!!

@BenLapke

1y↑4

I’m not sure “Allah” the God worshipped in Islam is being referred to in the song. I don’t think many in the west were familiar with the teachings of Islam in the ‘60s. It may be “à la” meaning “in the manner of.” But, I could be wrong.

@BenLapke

1y↑2

@@McFeedback1968 thanks for the info. When this song came out I was 10 and lived in America, so I certainly didn’t have a lot of information about English society at the time this song came out. I knew Indian culture and religion was being embraced by George Harrison and others, so there was an awareness of religions other than Judaism and Christianity, but I didn’t know if it extended to Islam.

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@calbudd2838

19w↑1

Love ❤️ this song. It's 60s music at its best.

@Jaime-fh6jr

💜💞💜This is beautiful...Thank you @Abigail& Barbara 🥰Luvz For Lyfe

@davidgross6957

6y↑135

Back in the day, I lived in Waynesboro, VA. I had a little white and silver Sears transistor radio that I played constantly. And I had a clunky little lo-fi tape recorder. When I heard a song I liked on the radio, I clicked on the tape recorder but always missed the first five or so seconds of the song. ; ^ ) Anyway, I had a tape I loved that included this song, followed by Itchycoo Park and White Rabbit. Wish I could remember the rest of the songs, I'd recreate that tape digitally.

@dakinobeats

5y↑8

Let me know if you recreate the tape!

@1758pk

4y↑7

Wow I did the same! I remember beside this song Wooden ships by Jefferson Airplane, Itchycoo park, and Hurdy Gurdy man. I still have the tape.

@deborahcookston9373

4y↑2

That was a cool picture in my head

@neils5539

4y↑3

Did the same thing, on a Radio Shack tape recorder. Probably accumulated 10 full tapes doing that.

@zindi1138

4y↑2

Mott the Hoople perhaps..Melanie

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@andiekelly3373

3y↑4

I love this song! I have Scottish heritage, so I feel a special bond to Donovan.

@johncater7861

I thought he was Irish.

@andiekelly3373

@@johncater7861 Donovan is from Scotland. Aye, he is Scottish.

@johncater7861

@@andiekelly3373 You are absolutely right! From the album that I have, Summer Day Reflection Songs, the insert reads that Donovan was born in Maryhill, near Glasgow. Shall slash my wrists now...

@CaroleReissDR

25w

Donovan doesn’t know how relevant he was.😊

@jasonmassplayingmusic5533

1y↑20

One of my all time favorite recordings…

@ElvisLivesUpstairs

6y↑175

"That sax would make a great pipe"

@chrisgoodrich46

6y↑3

ElvisLivesUpstairs you can't use a sax as a bong. If you could, I would already have done it 🌈

@johnetienne1531

6y↑2

You are an idiot my friend

@jorgemarioochoabarrera8375

I understand the referrence.

@bryonguernsey1726

Yeah if Bowie was at the production control board. Like the sax on walk on the wild side. I could totally hear that. This song is a great fav . Whenever I want the cool people to notice me in my neighborhood I catch myself turning this one up . Be well friends . Wear your love like heaven !

@notnotknowing2946

Say what

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@NH1969GOAT

4y↑10

Nobody pronounces "rose carmethene" better than Donovan :--)

@TheDoof1

3y↑2

Or adds an "a" in alizarin crimson...

@garygriffith3092

3y↑9

Donovan was definitely a Force back then and remains one to me now

@rickfries7579

1y↑2

my youngest Daughter - a Fav of hers. I am 72 now and that will give you an idea of what i shared with my Daughters/Family.

@trfesok

5y↑2

I first heard this song in a perfume commercial! I put that, this original and a cover by Sarah MacLachlan in my Donovan playlist.

@c.m.169

Eau de Love perfume commercial from '69 - '70. I still have a sample bottle of it from back then.

@tehalwest814

hi could you tell me if this eau de love a real one ? or is it fake ? i try to find a real ''Eau de Love'' by Love Cosmetics that they used to do at your era https://www.quirkyfinds.com/products/menley-james-eau-de-love-cologne?_pos=1&_sid=235abc191&_ss=r

@trfesok

@@tehalwest814 Uhh..no.. I'm a man well into my 60's! Too old for wearing perfume!

@mikewatson9676

4y↑32

The moog synthesizer and the the acoustical xylophone along with the amazing clarinet, make this song one of the best ever, totally unique, Donovan's vocals are so crisp, distinct, and so beautiful! One of my all time favs from the 60's. I also remember this as a commercial for .....I think some kind of shampoo or make up, or something along those lines!!

@redding-cainappraiser432

3y↑4

Love Cosmetics 60's

@stellapolanco6860

2y↑3

Not Moog Synth on this song !

@robertthacher2660

1y↑1

@@stellapolanco6860 Hammond B3

@tallmn1957

@Stella Polanco I don't think many people remember the Hammond.

@nunhgrader9702

3y↑13

This man was fantastic!

@patriciamasci6172

3y↑3

I've had Donovan's Greatest Hits in Vinyl, Cassette, CD & now iTunes!! His sound is AGELESS....just like me. 😍

@andytaylor5476

I was thinking the same thing. Great music is ageless and timeless.

@grasshopper48858

3y↑5

My childhood was awesome

@r.p.mcmurphy6623

Me, too! Born in 56

@robertthacher2660

The older we get, the more we know that

@kateblue2542

4y↑13

Remember this very well as I was alive at this time; yes all us 'old' ppl were young & very cool. Peace out!

@lefeuviolet

The coolest <3

@heatherk5199

3y↑41

I'm so glad that my only happy memories of this song are not tied to Homer. Thanks Mom and Dad!

@adambomb138

3y↑2

Well, some of us aren't old so we learned it from Homer getting high and its great.

@heatherk5199

3y↑2

@@adambomb138 well, hopefully you will be some day :)

@MARYBLEUZ

2y↑2

I was 7, had this album. Listened to it all the time.(1967)

@TheLuigiex50

3y↑4

The godfather of alternative. Beck before beck

@calfan4life

1y↑3

Hauntingly beautiful and trippy

@timjones7547

4y↑8

Saw and heard Donovan in Seattle about 1968. Great concert!

@robjohnson8214

Do you remember the venue? Parker's Ballroom ??

@gregh2322

23w

Donovan must be one of the most underrated singer/songwriters of that time.

@starleemartin1961

3y↑5

This is one song whose message I try to live. Lord knows how hard it is but I certainly try! Lol.

@christopherhuot2826

1y↑12

I ❤️ this song

@dementiadolle

2y↑7

As always, Donovan has been helping me though so much in my life. He shares so much hope and love in both his music and his words and I adore him and Linda too.

@dementiadolle

@@Thedonovanofficial. my goodness I absolutely wish I could attend one of your concerts! I am forever hoping to see locations near to me so that I can attend and bring my daughters who also love your music and grew up listening to it :) ( I'm in northern Ontario in Canada, so I'm across the pond so to speak)

@dementiadolle

@@Thedonovanofficial. my entire life on this planet has been absolutely filled with music 😀

@dementiadolle

@@Thedonovanofficial. I'm in Ontario in Canada

@dementiadolle

@@Thedonovanofficial. that isn't fair ! There are too many to list and absolutely not just one 😀

@dementiadolle

@@Thedonovanofficial. disclose what?

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@Ninineonangel77

11w

This song fills my hippie heart! This is the type of song you listen to on a hot warm summers day with light clothing or nothing at all and soaking up the song out in nature with a joint in your hand just vibing

@walterfechter8080

4y↑4

An old TV ad for Yardley of London brought me here. So did my memories of a long-past Spring. For Jackie, Kelly and Kathy.

@garyg2219

2y↑6

i agree, this is one of the best songs I've ever heard

@robertcavalier6133

2y↑3

Wonderful tune all those years ago! We were all younger then. What a time it was! * Cav *

@Edbup1

2y↑11

Love Donovan, really love this song!!! ♥

@simplyimpish1055

2y↑8

I want my morning wake up alarm to be this song.
I’d start every day 😍 in love

@hippiecheezburger5457

5y↑78

I remember this summer when I was like 17 doing LSD and loving Donovan

@kerrybindon940

Ditto

@starbreaker6017

3y↑1

🙏Lot of Sex huh😆 i want to be there so much

@Lugh444

@@starbreaker6017
Dude you can still take acid and listen to Donovan, I do 🤷🏻‍♂️

@zapbranigan5099

2y↑1

Seems farfetched and phony!

@chrisbacos

2y↑1

In the 2000s I had coffee with his daughter Ione Skye at a metaphysical church in Burbank. What a doll.

@davidoran123

11w

It was a gorgeous dream that came and went too quickly, could have brought in care for mankind and peace for the planet. Some of us remember, love to all.

@agricultures

11w

We're back... to finish the job :).. Waves they witnessed were the forerunners of us... The dreams they saw live once more, and this time... we flood the world... Dream Gorgeous David... You care, remember and love... Never give up... Catch the waves... Love is the seventh one... I see you... and the fire within...

@Eidann63

2y↑3

Love this song. Such memories. I was 18.

@jasonatkins8705

3y↑9

One of my all time favorite recordings...

@herbertrossman2275

6y↑28

This is such a beautiful song

@thomasbayer2429

2y↑2

What a good song... period! Also...women love this song, fyi.

@howdyheidi7757

5y↑12

reminds me of dancing in my room when I was a kid to Donovan with paper flowers in one hand and my big sister’s tamborine in the other.

@bolivianprince7326

4y↑6

one of the best lyrics ever written

@brendanhowe515

4y↑2

this song brought me out of a bad trip🙌

@donovan195

@garfieldfarkle

2y↑1

Donovan had so many great songs and carved out a niche that was his and his alone.
I remember this song was used in a commercial selling shampoo.
We had so many greats back in the day.
The 60s and 70s were a golden age for popular music.
You can go down the radio dial and find 3 or 4 stations playing our music, but in 1970 you couldn't do that and find several stations playing 20s and 30s music.
Unfortunately, what is lost on younger listeners is the feeling of the time that provides so much context.

@KitsuyuutsuR

4y↑13

Love Donovan, always makes me feel amazing! 😊

@chuckschaible5410

1y↑4

Amazing timeless beautiful 🎵 music never gets Old...

@NauticaSea217

I totally forgot about this song until I went to a swap meet about a week ago. I just had to find it again and put on my playlist. I miss my oldies.

@RetSol61

4y↑1

My Hippie Mom & Dad took me to the Hollywood Bowl in Sept 1968 to see Donovan. I still enjoy his music.

@GebbzSteelo

3y↑5

this is one of the hardest songs of all time famski

@abiwii16

2y↑4

this whole album is so good. when I found it at my local record shop, a few months ago. I had to get it. Best 25$ I ever spent. it was even complete, with the folder. and all the lyric sheets .