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 ⓘ