"Needles and Pins" is an English language proverb and nursery rhyme and was first recorded in the proverbs section of James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842).[1] Since then it has appeared largely unchanged in many other collections of nursery rhymes. Its usual form is
- Needles and pins, needles and pins,
- When a man marries, his trouble begins,
and it has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20071.
Notes edit
- ^ J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, The Nursery Rhymes of England: Obtained Principally from Oral Tradition (London, 1842), p.100, item 164
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