Anything you can do, I can do better

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"Anything you can do, I can do better" is a famous, playful duet from the 1946 Broadway musical *Annie Get Your Gun*, in which two characters humorously compete over who is more capable.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf duet
show tune
song
associatedWithCharacter Annie Oakley (fictional character) NERFINISHED
Frank Butler (fictional character) NERFINISHED
composer Irving Berlin NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalImpact became a widely recognized catchphrase
firstPerformanceYear 1946
frequentlyPerformedIn revivals of Annie Get Your Gun
frequentlyRecordedBy various popular singers
genre musical theatre
show tune
hasForm verse-chorus
intendedMood humorous
light-hearted
language English
lyricalDevice dialogue
one-upmanship
repetition
lyricalStyle comic
playful
lyricist Irving Berlin NERFINISHED
musicalTheatreProduction Annie Get Your Gun NERFINISHED
name Anything You Can Do NERFINISHED
notableLyric Anything you can do, I can do better NERFINISHED
No you can't
Yes I can
originalCastPerformer Ethel Merman NERFINISHED
Ray Middleton NERFINISHED
originalMedium Broadway musical
originalProductionLocation Broadway NERFINISHED
partOfMusical Annie Get Your Gun NERFINISHED
performanceContext onstage competition between leads
performedByCharacters Annie Oakley NERFINISHED
Frank Butler NERFINISHED
period Golden Age of Broadway NERFINISHED
publisher Irving Berlin Music Company NERFINISHED
structure call and response duet
theme boasting
friendly rivalry
gender competition
typicalInstrumentation orchestra
typicalVocalForces male-female duet GENERATED
usedAs comic showdown number

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Anything You Can Do notableLyric Anything you can do, I can do better