meself, as noted, the boxing glove chorus, first appeared in the children's magazine, St. Nicholas, in a revised version of Carryl's poem.
I also doubt that it was a mondegreen in this unattributed revision, just an attempt to make the poem more palatable to small children.

The music's composer is J. B. Geoghegan; it is the tune to his "Ten Thousand Miles Away" (lyrics in the DT ), another variation on Carryl's poem.

In his children's book, "Davy and the Goblin," Carryl did not give a title for his poem, but it was later called "The Walloping Window Blind" by some and "A Capital Ship" by others (the latter adding confusion between the original and the revision).