Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) "Anything You Can Do" is a song composed by Irving Berlin for the 1946 Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun". The song is a duet, with one male singer and one female singer attempting to outdo each other in increasingly complex tasks. In the musical, the song sets the scene for the climactic sharpshooting contest between Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. Its most memorable lines are, "Anything you can do I can do better; I can do anything better than you." The song was first performed in "Annie Get Your Gun" by
Hey, Hey, What Can I Do the subsequent 12-CD "Led Zeppelin Definitive Collection" box set released in 2008. In 2015, the song was also included on disc one of the two companion discs of the reissue of "Coda". Led Zeppelin never performed the song at a any of their concerts; however Page and Plant did perform the song in 1995 and 1996 on the accompanying tour for their 1994 live album "". Page also performed the song with the Black Crowes for their 2000 album "Live at the Greek". Hey, Hey, What Can I Do "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" is a song by the