<Dd> Accuser / Group: Yes, you! / Yeah, you! </Dd> <Dd> Accused: Couldn't be! / Not me! / Wasn't me! </Dd> <Dd> Accuser / Group: Then who? </Dd> <P> This is followed by the "accused" saying the name of someone else, as "(name of a child in the circle) stole the cookie from the cookie jar," and the subsequent back - and - forth lines are repeated . The song may be repeated ad infinitum or it may end - if it is being performed as part of a game, where members of the group are eliminated by failing to keep up with the prescribed beat or eliminated as a result of being chosen as one of the accused . </P>

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