<P> "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 . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> During the song, they argue playfully about who can, for example, sing softer, sing higher, sing sweeter, and hold a note for longer, and boast of their abilities and accomplishments, such as opening safes and living on bread and cheese, although Annie always seems to counter Frank's argument . Neither can "bake a pie," though . </P>

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