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
It's All I Can Do It's All I Can Do "It's All I Can Do" is a song by the American rock band the Cars. It is the third track from their 1979 album "Candy-O". It was written by the band's leader and songwriter Ric Ocasek, and features bassist Benjamin Orr on vocals. "It's All I Can Do" is a new wave influenced pop rock song. According to Brett Milano, writer of the "" album notes "'It's All I Can Do' was an affecting, straight-ahead piece of romantic pop, give or take a line like 'When I was crazy, I thought you were great.'" The