Sentence:  The title lyric, the only part of the original Yiddish preserved by Cahn, was a <WSD>mondegreen</WSD> waiting to happen—“My Mere Bits of Shame” and “My Beer, Mr. Shane” were among the earliest recorded mishearings—but the language barrier didn't ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A form of error arising from mishearing a spoken or sung phrase. (from 1954)