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 spirited duet, with one male singer and one female singer attempting to out-do 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 Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton.

In 2007, this song was used as the background music of an advertisement by Mercedes Benz, featuring several Formula One drivers including Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Mika Häkkinen.

Notable Versions

• Betty Hutton and Howard Keel (1950)
• Doris Day and Robert Goulet (1963)
• Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat (1999)
• John Barrowman and Ruthie Henshall
• Ethel Merman and Miss Piggy
• Michael Jordon and Mia Hamm Sprite Commerical (1997)

Other recorded versions

• Mary Martin and John Raitt (1957)
• Ethel Merman and Bruce Yarnell (1966)
• Ethel Merman and Neilson Taylor (1973)
• The Andrews Sisters and Bing Crosby