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
Do Anything You Wanna Do critics poll in the NME. A live version of the song was featured as the B-side to their 1978 single, "Life on the Line". The song was featured in the 2009 film "The Invention of Lying". Do Anything You Wanna Do "Do Anything You Wanna Do" is a song written by Eddie and the Hot Rods' manager Ed Hollis (the brother of Talk Talk's Mark Hollis) and guitarist Graeme Douglas and recorded by the band, although the actual record label credited The Rods as the artist. It reached #9 on the UK Singles Chart in 1977. The song was featured