Rose recorded the song in 1976, but the original version failed to chart.
The song was covered by multiple artist including Bobby Bare and John Denver.
[1] It also reached number one on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.
[2] In a 2016 interview with Outtake Media, writer Deena Kaye Rose stated that she wrote the song about her struggles with gender identity prior to her own coming out as a transgender woman.
She stated that she felt that, being in the music industry, she often had to hide her desired identity from the music community, and respectively used the images of diamonds and stone to reflect her feminine and masculine sides.