Wear Your Love Like Heaven

"Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
Single by Donovan
from the album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden
B-side	"Oh, Gosh!"
Released	Dec 1967
Format	7" single
Genre	Psychedelic pop
Label	Epic 5-10253
Writer(s)	Donovan Leitch
Producer	Mickie Most
Donovan USA chronology
"There is a Mountain" (1967) "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" (1967) "Jennifer Juniper" (1968)
Music sample "Wear Your Love Like Heaven"

Prussian blue

Alizarin crimson

"Wear Your Love Like Heaven" is a song and US single by British singer/songwriter Donovan, released in 1967. It became the opening title of his double album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden. Chart position: No.23 (USA).

The song mentions several dye and pigment colours: Prussian blue, Scarlet, Crimson, Havana lake, Rose carmethene and Alizarin crimson.

Covers

• Eartha Kitt, on her 1970 album Sentimental.
• They Might Be Giants, as a spoken word piece.
• Sarah McLachlan, for the Donovan tribute album Island of Circles; it also appeared on US printings of her 1991 album Solace.
• Japanese noise artist Masonna perform a noise "cover" of this song on Japanese/American Noise Treaty compilation.
• Peggy Lipton Her 1970 single appeared in the Record World "Non-Rock" Top 40.

Appearances in other media

The song was featured in the Eau De Love (by Menley and James) fragrance commercial in the early 1970s that featured Ali MacGraw.

It was featured in Season 13 The Simpsons episode "Weekend at Burnsie's" where Homer Simpson (after he smokes medicinal marijuana) gets ready for work and pictures his world as a psychedelic wonderland.

It was also recorded by Richie Havens on his anthology release, Richard P. Havens, 1983.

External links

• Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Single) - Donovan Unofficial Site
• Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics