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  • I think most people who said they were brought here from the simpsons most likely heard this song before somewhere else. The Simpsons just somehow got them off the couch to go find it, i guess.You would have to be living in the core of the earth to not have heard this song at least once before, while living in north America.

  • I've adored "Donovan's Greatest Hits" since the late seventies, and this is one of the best songs off it. Praise the Lord!

  • Who cares HOW you "find" a good song...you found it! Now, enjoy it.

  • No matter where you remember this song from its the appreciation for a classic singer and song writer that should be considered.

  • trip *.* ... wow

  • This sublimely-romantic song reminds me of this quote. "How did it happen that their lips came together? How dd it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the ROSE unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said" -- Victor Hugo

  • A Yardley of London TV ad (from long ago). This song is like a summer's daydream that never left my mind. This one is for us, My Lady Barbra Rose (now in Heaven's resplendent garden).

  • jepulis yes song ☺♪♥♪

  • I found this song because of Simpsons aswell but it doesn't make me less of an idiot or more. Just like you I appreciate the song for it's groovyness and creativity , i even found this ages ago (at 15 years) yaay give me a pat on the shoulder now no but seriously no matter how old you are or where you found the song doesn't matter as long as you appreciate it. That's my 0.02$.

  • This is the first Youtube vid I couldn't back out of ... it kept starting again! I want one without Colonel H20 on it to show others how it really looks. Anyway, this is a great album we bought new back when it came out. I guess that makes me old, damn.

  • @jamesoverend i'm sorry you took the comment that way. I'm very happy more people get exposed to great music no matter how it is. It just gets annoying with The Simpsons and Family Guy become the main sources of historical musical reference. It's kinda lazy. "How else do you learn anything?" You say, seriously???.....oh I dunno, perhaps turn off the Simpsons & go to a record store, talk to people who know more than you about music, ASK ALOT OF QUESTIONS for starters...that's what I did/do.

  • yeah, not to dis the poster, glad you posted ColonelH2O. but i agree. I was on a search for good music ever since i was old enough to remember, looking everywhere other than the radio or tv, and found there is much better music if you take that route..

  • Musical elitism is just another form of insecurity, who cares what the source of discovery is, if you hear good music ANYWHERE its gonna be appreciated no matter if its just a snippet in a tv show. Look at it like this: how many people took the time to pause their tv show to figure out what that good music is and who made it?

  • Yeah, Simpsons baby o/

  • I first heard this song on a mixed Donovan tape my girlfriend at the time gave me, apart from that if the young ones only get to hear good music from TV shows well at lest they get the opputunity

  • He kinda sounds like Klaus from American Dad.

  • thumbs up if you like the song just because it's groovy.

  • Lol why do people get all mad if they discovered this song cause of The Simpsons? Get the fuck over it you fucking little pussy ass bitches come to my fucking hood and ill show you whats up. 45 BLOCK ALL DAY

  • @lokoff4loko  why so angry

  • I think it's pretty sad and pathetic that it always seems to take an episode of "Family Guy" or "The Simpsons" to get people to discover good music. What an unambitious society we find ourselves in.

  • @astronautagogo How about you be grateful that the creative people on these shows introduced this music so that the non elitest like you can appreciate it. Who gives a shit if I found this on The Simpsons. I'm glad I did and I can enjoy it like you so how about you and others stop being Hipsters and enjoy this good music!

  • @astronautagogo yeah, i know. it sucks that most people cannot be as awsome as you and discover gems like this song without help!

  • @astronautagogo

    Don’t be such a pompous dick! It's not unambitious if people subsequently bother to look the music up. How else do you learn anything? I wonder how many people went out and bought this LP as a consequence of hearing it on TV... That's how older music is kept alive and made relevant to younger people.

  • @astronautagogo

    The Simpsons is a fine medium for discovery

  • @astronautagogo

    agreed. but HEY! at least people were attracted to the music.

  • @astronautagogo I consume music like a vacuum and the first time I heard this song was on the Simpsons. It wasn't due to a lack of trying but this is an old song and sometimes they get lost in because they are old.

  • @astronautagogo

    My very thought!

  • whats with the flute overdubs @ 1:36? my [original?] version dont have it.

  • I heard this song in a doctor's office the other day.

  • The 80's??? Try the 60's. It was a top hit and tons of radio play. i was showing my age gently, or so I thought. Great memories....swinging on the swing set in the yard in the summer jamming to this song...as a first grader

  • i listen to this on records with head phones

  • Listened to this on my transistor radio in 1st grade. My favorite song then

  • @schneidzz what year was that must have been the 80's because I'm shure radios had tubes before then.

  • @twistedyogert - Radios for the home had tubes. Transistor radios didn't, not even in the 60's.

  • Happy trails...

  • You listened to this song because of Jason Schwartzman.

  • If you like this you'll love "For Little ones" (album/CD). You'll probably have to buy the double album/CD to get it since I don't think they make just that album by itself anymore.......look into it .....you'll be glad you did.......let me know what you think after you listen........................­........homy

  • Thumbs up if you DIDN'T discover this song because of Simpsons.

  • @pjautuvas mmm doesn't really matter where we got it from, other than you tryin to feel good bout yourself. just light a bud to feel good

  • @pjautuvas haha i dint know it was on the simpsons ima check it out

  • @pjautuvas Sorry man

  • Homer's triiip o.O

  • 12 people would rather Wear Their Love Like Hell :c

  • WEAR YOUR LOVE LIKE HEAVEN!

  • PEAAAAAACE

  • the ultimate mellow song

  • Color sky havana lake

    > Color sky rose carmethene

    > Alizarian crimson

  • 11 PEOPLE HAVE NO COCK!!!! DOPE ASS SONG!

  • I first heard this song back in the '60s and always loved it. Years later, this song gave me one more reason to love THE SIMPSONS, and reconfirm their absolute undeniable coolness!!!!!!

  • WEAR ARE THE WOMEN OUT THERE THAT WEAR THEIR LOVE LIKE HEAVEN NOW A DAYS?

  • Fill me with song .

  • pure love......love to all!

  • working hard or hardly working ? stoned Homer is the best ! lov the song !

  • bad song is bad

  • on druuuugs :))

  • @Mikeibk1 hook me up 

  • I heard this song when it first came out...a long time ago. I may be old but I grew up with all these fabulous musicians from the 60's....my generation and I am so so proud to be a part of it all.

  • Weekend At Burnsie's was the name of episode from Season 13 of " THE SIMPSONS".... and it is one of my favorite episodes..........if it's one of your's 2 then, vote this post up.......;)

  • Just Chillin

    ((d-_-b))

  • SIMPSONS :D i loved the part when this song came on simpsons :D

  • My father used to play Donovan's songs while i was a kid. Now Donovan is one of the bests for me. Incredible memories I have everytime I hear classic songs. I would never remember the day in the river, or the places I visited during vacations, before reaching to my uncle's house. When I hear Donovan, Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc, it hits me like a bullet. That's the kind of feeling i can't have with the modern music.

  • LSD trippin' OMG 8 )

  • Donavon...the original hippie. Beautiful song. Does anyone remember "from a flower to a garden ."

  • Donavon...the original hippie. Beautiful song. Does anyone remember "A Letter From A Clam To A Walrus."

  • hard working, or hardly working ! 

  • yeah i heard this on the simpsons and had to download it!! love it!!!!

  • you dont hear songs like this anymore . it has meaning to it

  • that was a great song for that time

  • cool song and i am 14 lol

  • LEGALIZE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This sounds like the house music of the late '90s. Kool!

  • @psychofred2 like which songs? i'm interested

  • @kayak0055 Some songs that have a similar vibe and sound to this would include Stardust The music sounds better with you, Daft Punk One more time, Planet Funk Chase the sun, Cassius 1999, Superman Lovers Starlight, Spiller-Groovejet if this aint love, Modjo Lady, Modjo Chillin. Jamiroquai's 'Space Cowboy' also has a similar sound. By the way, I like music from all eras except the post 9/11 era, which has really gone downhill fast.
  • @psychofred2 Excellent, I'll definitely check that stuff out.

  • 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 Colour sky havana lake Colour sky rose carmethene Alizarian crimson Wear your love like heaven
  • @halcyon0830 Dont you just love the imagery of those beautiful lyrics? Gorgeous evening skies kissed by Donovan's artistry brushes. Alizarian crimson.........

  • I like this song, even if it is an oldie!

  • @deprogramer69 Not surprised you don't like oldies.. your taste in music is so bland and sucks imo imo imo.

  • @11xzxzxz Well, that's all a matter of taste isn't it? Does my awkward taste in music make me a bad person? You'll probably answer yes to that won't you?

  • @deprogramer69 No it's my awkward way of finding a new friend. Seriously, I believe many great people don't care for music and it makes no difference. And if you like this song there is hope. Hey thanks for not getting bent out of shape and doing what 90% of people do when I criticize a song: calling me names You responded in an inquisitive and humane way. See I criticized you and that is rare - I usually just stick to the song and you were very mature.. thanks and take care. 

  • @11xzxzxz Okay, well we can be friends I suppose. When I'm on the computer I spend most of my time at Yahoo Answers.

  • its donovan

  • when you look like hitler lol

  • It sound like he's saying "when you look like Hitler"

  • Wear you love like Revlon..a fucking coolest commerical ever!

  • Simpsons too

  • Weed loves me, as I love weed. She was always there for me during my hardest days. Now if the fat cats with bald heads in black suits on the steps of the white house can realize that......

  • @Marz0824 Causes short term memory lose, not to mention takes away inhibitions and ambition. Most pot smokers end up BUMS...sad to say...I ought to know...I was a FLOWER CHILD...everyone is now dead.

  • @Taharah007 well, and correct me if I'm wrong....don't we ALL die eventually?

  • @Marz0824 Can't we all just get a bong!

  • and what if when you're older, and your hardest days fall in with the moments of your childhood where you remember crying but in which you recall no feelings, and your bald head sticks out of clothes you've put on because you've stopped caring for the meaning they might have, and some young buck speaks some fast words about what you are, will you care what he says?

  • love weed

  • cannabis .... !

  • that album cover is freakin awesome! donovan is freaking awesome.

  • I bought the album when it first came out in the late 60's

  • @RaiderNationPodcast Hey man, congrats, you lived the best age in music in all history. In name of the current generation i beg your pardon for all the untalented music we're producing these years. It must be so deceiving to see how good music vanished...

  • It was used for a commercial for a perfume called "Love" back in the day-- I can't remember exactly when.

  • I couldn't get enough of this song. I love the melody and it is so mellow.

  • LOVE WEED:)

  • I heard it too on the simpsons...for the first time

  • It was the casette era. And we made our favourite compilations which was 90 minutes of goodies one after the other and these compilations were much sought after and trade like gold. I left mine in Vientiane, Lao.

  • One of his best song, simply wonderful melody...

  • The FUCKING CIA fucked up all the hippies by introducing anti-theogenic drugs and alcohol.

    FUCK CIA

  • i heard it on simpsons also! when homer gets stoned :D - awesome episode and awesome song, any other classics from this era i have missed? : )

  • Happy Birthday Donovan!!! 5-10-2010

  • Color sky rose carmethene

    Alizarian crimson...

    Totally nonsensical words but they sure made sense (and colors) when I was tripping back in the day...

  • When im high, this is the kind of music i want to hear. Peace and chilling its shame that i missed the 60's :/

  • @hhagiz It was a pretty amazing time. Keep the vibe going!

  • @hhagiz Right on, man.

  • This song is so chill. I love it.

  • This song was soundtrack to a pretty good 4:20.

  • my uncle loves this song

  • Fly, Homer, fly...

  • thats bodium castle in the background. I've been there, the moat is filled with huge fish. haha he must have been freaked out sitting in that.

  • If you found this song from Simpsons rate this up :)

  • @dragonzav

    haha i did too!

  • @dragonzav YEAH MAN!!!

  • @dragonzav That's white-trashy to have heard this the first time from the Simpsons.

  • @JoshSitar

    Dude relax...

    At least there are some people who likes this great music and not that MTV crap...

  • @dragonzav

    Hahaha! yeeh I just saw that one yesterday!! :D

  • @dragonzav You know it!

  • i love the xylophone(?)

  • I heard it too in the Simpson and I found this one cool ! Thank you to post it ! =)

  • This is so cool. I remember when this came out. Do they use a Mellotron on this song?

  • haha i know it too from the simpsons xD^^

  • There used to be a vid here (aud only) of Donovan doing the trad hymn "Lord of the Dance," solo w/ guitar -- a great rendition. I'd never heard it before, & can't find it anywhere (here, iTunes, Amazon, lala, etc); seems it was issued only on "HMS Donovan," a UK-only album.

    It was of course pulled from here; if anyone knows where to find one (or can re-post one here) I'd be really grateful. Other fans wld prob like it too.

    Apologies 4 redundancy; I've posted this on other threads too...

  • Thanks for this! This album cover and song opened my eyes when I was a kid. Could not wait to grow up and live a magical hippie/neo Victorian life, carrying lilies and living in a fuschia tinted Beardsley illustration. Thank you for keeping a dream alive. : )

  • The Simpsons episode this is on is one of the best ever..

    Hardly working lol

    Great song too

  • esta cansion me hace recordar al porro @_@

  • I love this song =]

  • This song is so free flowing. Generally speaking, you were ultra lucky to be around in the United States or in Britain as a very young teen in 1967. That would place you in a space where you did not even have to worry about being drafted into a useless war and there was not even a fear then of catching HIV if you were out dating. It was a VERY long gliding stretch of years of no urgent fears and more creative and real sounding musicians that didn't write strictly for the dollar marks.

  • maybe but they were certainly taken advantage of by the record companies and many were manipulated into writing pop songs for the benefit of record sales, but one things for sure, they definitely didnt sing about being in the club or drinking champagne

  • You so obviously weren't there. hahaha

  • ppbird0- Having a bad day today and out looking to pick random fights online? If you had such hard life back then from being so old that you ended up in Viet Nam, that really doesn't mean you have tangible proof that the rest of us (who were younger teenagers than you) shared your sad experience. I noticed you didn't even elaborate on those days from your own experience so why don't you go ahead and do that for us now and educate all of us about just your own life in the late 1960s.

  • @ppbird0

    He obviously WAS there. I was too. There were some bad things going on in the world , but it was a great time for growing up, and I miss the 60's, and it's music. I was 13 in 1967, and have very vivid memories of those wonderful years, I will never forget.

  • YES!!! I was one of whom you write.

    Wonderful time to be a kid.

  • @lllwindrunner STD's were huge in the 60's and 70's because of huge use of unprotected sex..

  • "STD's were huge in the 60's and 70's because of huge use of unprotected sex"

    Kim.. HIV was not yet in the world picture then and note that this was my specific reference.

    As far as the rest...hmm...I'm not sure about the use of the word "huge" when in comparison to the later decades. There were plenty of comercials to be mainly aware of VD in the 60's and 70s but man.. that's really nothing compared to what all came along in later decades with the newer types of STDs.

  • @lllwindrunner alright. Thanks chief. ;^D

  • @lllwindrunner Wrong about that, the U.S. WAS drafting kids into a useless war.(Viet-Nam) No urgent fears? We grew up being told the Russians could/would use the bomb on us any day. No H.I.V. but plenty of other "social" diseases. However you WERE right about the music! It is still some of the best ever made. :-) Oh and you were definitly NOT lucky if you were born black AND down in the southland!

  • @ScotAbenaki *Generally speaking*. I didn't forget at all that there were some STD's around but nothing near as lethal as what we have now and I guess you were little bit older than me then because by the time me and all my classmates were of draft age, the draft had gone bye bye. Sorry to hear you had to suffer through a crazy time being black in the southland back then. Racism is stupid wicked stuff indeed but I'm still thinking the *over all* wicked of today has outranked 1967 by a long shot.

  • that episodes on as im typing this

  • yhere same lolz i love this song now simpsons are mad

  • I heard it from the simpsons first too

  • @narwaal

    me too :D

  • @narwaal haha same here.. and I fell in love with it!

  • @narwaal me too i was stoned when i saw that episode it was crazy with all the colores in shit and doughnuts flyin everywhere lol

  • @narwaal me too bro, that episode rocks

  • @narwaal yes when Homer shave your face before smoking cannabis

  • like it ^_^

  • this song and acid go hand in hand<3

  • Yet another beautiful song by Donovan...wouldn't it be wonderful if life was so simple again?!?!?

  • Alizarin crimson--makes me think of Bob Ross--great song btw. Glad to find it, my favorited version got nailed for copyright violation... damn you copyright laws!

  • I remember this song well during my freshman year in high school and it is a pleasant sounding song that holds up well.

  • legalize it!

  • I'm totally high and loving this vibe!

    Love is the cure

  • Hey, love is the best high no drugs no cops 100 percent sharing. You can't bogart love.

  • @lippypete Yes...please find LOVE so you do not have to SELF-MEDICATE!

  • @lippypete lier marijuana is the cure!

  • @lippypete That's awesome man! You own! :D

  • @lippypete what a groovy song!

  • @lippypete This is my favorite high song lol

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  • lol I remember the simpsons ep it was on the one were homer becomes a "smoker"

  • LOL That is were u heard this song from

  • The man has a beautiful song & the lyrics of a poet. ; I remember this cut being utilized in a commercial from Yardly perfume in the past...*

  • The commerical was a Revlon...".Wear you love like Revlon" was the slogan .... I believe. Someone please post this commerical. It's great!! I have been looking for that commerical for years..

  • @tonkehar Were you love like Revlon was a tv commerical of this album cover come to life. Mind blowing commerical someone post it if you can. if you think the album cover is cool,you have to see the commerical!

  • one of the best folk rock songs ever!

  • It was a commercial for LOVE perfume.

    I never get tired of this song.

  • there was a commercial on tv years ago that made this song famous. it was either for shampoo or perfume.

  • It was a shampoo commercial.........

    I remember it very well. I am 51 now i must have been around 10 at the time.

    This is one fantastic song takes me back to the days of my late childhood....... Beautiful women everywhere. Metro Detroit

  • same here,,, heard it on simpsons... also.. incense n peppermints by strawberry alarm clock... good songs...

  • This isn't the only song by Donovan featured on the Simpsons. On the episode where Homer thinks he's discovered an alien there's another who's name escapes me. I want to say Go0d Morning Starshine.

    This music while popular, was also very underground at the time. There were places in middle America you just wouldn't have heard this music back then. The most creative music is always underground, never mainstream. There's still go0d stuff out there, you just need to lo0k for it. Great song.

  • Thank you so much for posting, I've been looking for the name/artist of this song all day.

  • Very beautiful song!

  • kiss me once more, fill me with song...sweet magic from Donovan! Great posting ! 5 *****