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 the Top 20 standard of its predecessor, it reached number 41 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. A third and final single from "Candy-O", "Double Life", failed to chart. "It's All I Can Do" has generally received positive reception from critics. Prato said that It's All I Can Do' ... deserved to be a hit," while Champ said the track (as well as its predecessor, "Let's Go,") "give ample evidence of the band's range." William Ruhlmann, author of "The All-Music Guide to Rock", said "'It's All I Can Do' hit as well [as 'Let's Go']", and in the "Billboard" review of