"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.