Story about this misheard lyric by: Lauren Overstreet

This is a very bizarre mishearing of a lyric, but I promise, my story is absolutely true. I was shopping in a Wal Mart, where they often play music on a sound system, but the music is sometimes interrupted by announcements. I didn't even know for sure until I came home and searched lyrics sites whether I heard the beginning of the song or a part that came back after an announcement interrupted it. It must have been the latter case, for the real lyrics as cited above are towards the end of the song, not at the beginning (though very similar lines occur closer to the beginning). Anyhow, at the point where it first caught my ear, it sounded for all the world like she was singing "War is cool" (I didn't recognize the song or the singer at that point), I thought for a moment I must be hearing some satirical anti-war song, with "War is cool" being declared ironically. Then by the time she reached the high note on the second syllable of sugar, I suddenly recognized the song for the old familiar song from 'Mary Poppins' that it is. I knew by then that she hadn't sung "War is cool". Now recognizing the song, I knew the lyrics approximately as something like "Oh, a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down." I puzzled for a while over how "Oh" could sound so much like "War". But then a lyrics site told me that this particular instance of the chorus, later in the song, has "For" instead of "Oh" as in the earlier occurrence of the chorus. "For" could sound much more like "War', making my mishearing somewhat less outlandish than it seemed all the way home from Wal Mart!