Anything you can do, I can do better

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"Anything you can do, I can do better" is a famous, playful duet from the 1946 Broadway musical *Annie Get Your Gun*, in which two characters humorously compete over who is more capable.

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Anything you can do, I can do better canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf duet
show tune
song
associatedWithCharacter Annie Oakley (fictional character)
linked to: Annie Oakley

Frank Butler (fictional character)
composer Irving Berlin
countryOfOrigin United States
culturalImpact became a widely recognized catchphrase
firstPerformanceYear 1946
frequentlyPerformedIn revivals of Annie Get Your Gun
frequentlyRecordedBy various popular singers
genre musical theatre
show tune
hasForm verse-chorus
intendedMood humorous
light-hearted
language English
lyricalDevice dialogue
one-upmanship
repetition
lyricalStyle comic
playful
lyricist Irving Berlin
musicalTheatreProduction Annie Get Your Gun
name Anything You Can Do
notableLyric Anything you can do, I can do better
No you can't
Yes I can
originalCastPerformer Ethel Merman
Ray Middleton
originalMedium Broadway musical
originalProductionLocation Broadway
partOfMusical Annie Get Your Gun
performanceContext onstage competition between leads
performedByCharacters Annie Oakley
Frank Butler
period Golden Age of Broadway
publisher Irving Berlin Music Company
structure call and response duet
theme boasting
friendly rivalry
gender competition
typicalInstrumentation orchestra
typicalVocalForces male-female duet
usedAs comic showdown number

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Anything You Can Do notableLyric Anything you can do, I can do better
"Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)" notableLyric Anything you can do, I can do better