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In the film Project Eliminator (1991), David Carradine plays and sings a very short song on piano. This moment occurs about 26 minutes into the film. The lyrics are:

Troublemaker!
I've got my eyes on you
Don't be mistaken
I'm watching everything that you do
And I can't let you
Get through
To me
Troublemaker!

It appears Carradine is authentically playing the piano, and it seems like he is definitely singing.

Screenshot of David Carradine singing and playing the piano

The end credits have a section titled "Original Songs" that lists 6 songs, but none of them appears to be this song, and Carradine is not listed as the performer of any of them.

I searched the web for the lyrics and did not find it; it is definitely not the song by Olly Murs ft Flo Rida.

What is the origin of this song? Was it written for the film?

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Given what I found below, I believe he only performed a small segment of it in the 1991 film and it was not written for it, but it is attributed to him and two partners, much earlier in 1983.

tl;dr:

Sources are very limited on this, and search engines seem to be quite rubbish these days:

I believe, with little evidence, that it is a 1983 original song by David Carradine, (his girlfriend and soon to be wife) Gail Jensen (writer of the Unknown Stuntman for the Lee Majors TV series), and Michael Shanklin.

The full title is: Señor Problemas = Trouble maker

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https://www.discogs.com/release/23240840-David-Carradine-Gail-Jensen-Michael-Shanklin-Se%C3%B1or-Problemas-Trouble-maker

There was a video floating around of Carradine and Gail Jensen performing it together on The Merv Griffin Show in 1983, around the time he was promoting the release of his film Americana (which does not have the song on it) - but am currently unable to locate it.

David Carradine, Gail Jensen, Michael Shanklin (1983). Señor Problemas (Troublemaker) (vinyl single). Argentina: MICSA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carradine

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