The version I have been singing for over Twenty Years is based on one Stan Hugels versions from Shanties From The Seven Sea's. I repeat Valparaiso is an alternative title for Paddy Lay Back.

Paddy Lay Back is a very popular song and in my view the one most likely to have been requested. By requesting it under the name of Valparaiso the person asking for this song was letting you know that he new and was prepared to help by joining in it's Refrain.

You will find Paddy Lay Back in the Digital's Tradition's Database or On Coblers Mondays CD Whitby Cured available from the Shanty Cabin or from the captain Cook Museum, Grape Lane, Whitby, North Yorkshire. You can hear Cobblers Monday Singing this song by taking a trip round Whitby Bay on HMS Endeavour Mini Replica sails every half hour or by just standing and waiting fro her return on the west or eastside piers.

Or Here on Youtube

12000 visitors a day to Whitby in the Spring Summer have heard this version of Valporiso Coblers Monday have also appeared on ITV singing this version and 12871 views on Youtube to date. Then there are all the other people who have recorded and published this version.

I maybe all well and good finding obscure versions of songs but I ask you is it likely that it is that version that has been requested.