Jerry had some interesting pronunciations, a 'dray-gon' with matches, a 'way-gon' that's loaded with clay, among others. That's not part of a Bay Area dialect afaik. Does anyone know where that comes from?
I have been listening to these songs for 40 plus years and I never heard it they way you do.....but everyone hears things differently.
As far as I know, Jerry resided within 100 miles of San Francisco from birth to death.