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Me and my cuz used to do Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd, I'd do the fingerpick lead on electric and my cousin would strum the chords. We used a version that had the chords C G Am....
You could always just play around with some bluesy little lead notes and have her strum in E, and of course there's the age old trick:
           A
l-----------------------
l-------------------------
l------------------------
l-2-2--4-4--2-2--4-4
l-0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0
l-----------------------

which you can move up and down a string, that could use some backup strumming.
Thats A like I wrote it, you can go up and that would make it D, and down and that would make it E.

           D
l-------------------------
l------------------------
l-2-2--4-4--2-2--4-4
l-0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0
l-----------------------
l----------------------
          E
l---------------------
l----------------------
l-------------------------
l------------------------
l-2-2--4-4--2-2--4-4
l-0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0

The best way to get good calluses is just to PLAY. Play through and in spite of pain, peeling, and 'flat spots' (not sure what ur talking about, but for God's sake don't file your fingers off lol). In time they'll come in like thier supposed to, especially with a teacher showing you where your fingers are supposed to be.
  My skin still cracks from time to time, but  I can't really feel it anymore. The skin on my fingertips is noticabely tough, I've been playing around 4 years and my fingers are just now starting to 'reshape' but the toughness has been there a good long while.
I've already saud play through the pain, but when you get to that purple 'Oh my God I can't feel my fingers anymore' place, its a good idea to take a break and let them rest. They'll get purple and shiny and you'll be able to feel your pulse...... i don't miss those days.
Another tip would be to keep your left hand fingernails pretty short, its easy to let them kill the strings.

nuthin' but the tailights- Clint Black
Chrome- Trace Adkins
The phantom 309- ???

A few more I remembered about cars

Welcome to chordie
Me I never had lessons, but Im sure thats the right way to go about it. Look under the 'easy' section of the public songbooks for some good suff. Its better to go with songs you know, but here's a few fun ones:

Bad Moon Risin'- CCR
The Joker= Steve Miller Band
All I Can do is write about it- Lynyrd Skynyrd

Then you know a bunch of country stuff, don't know if you're into that. Out of curiosity, what style of music are you learning to play?

congratulations southpaw
  Never was a huge washburn fan, but it sounds like you really like it. Enjoy friend!

Howdy Fred and welcome to chordie
Thats awesome that you teach. Sometimes I wish I'd have gotten lessons before I learned everything too backwards for it to do any good haha. Anyway, hope you enjoy the site there's lots of good advice floating around and its a real clean helpful site. I'm sure being a teacher you could help alot of us younger players out when we have problems too, and of course any of us would be glad to help you too if you need anything.

Okay here's cars:

come ride in the car with me- BB King
Cadillacin' Model A- Bob Wills
Guitars Cadillacs and Hillbilly Music- Dwight Yoakum
One Piece at a time- johnny Cash
Mercury Blues- Alan Jackson
Loretta Lynn's Lincoln- josh Turner
pick-up man- ??? (actually about a truck does that count??)

The song 'brokenheartsville' starts off with
"I think the devil drives a coup de ville'

The ones I knew about snakes somebody already said...

well the main thing for me is just curiosity, considering the fact that I paid around 98 cents at a goodwill for most of my records (I paid eight bucks for the folsom album, and actually 20$ for second helpings just because I'ma hige skynyrd fan and I thought it was cool not because I neccesarily thought it was worth that much), I don't think I've lost too much.
I don't want to sell my albums,  I hang them in my room and play them, but I would like to know if they're worth anything (just for bragging rights I guess haha). My entire collection has been purchased with the mindset of 'I'm not going to buy any record that I wouldn't actually listen to", regardless of monetary value, so it means something to me that it might not to someone else.
In fact one of my favorite ones is the cover only of ZZ Top's eliminator, not in the greatest shape and the LPs not even in there, but I got it from my cousin a long time ago and I promised to take care of it. It was one fo his mom's own from her younger days, and she told him if he ever gave it away it would have to be to me or my brother because she trusted us. Not because its worth anything, but because it was from her childhood.
SO, I'm going to try the estimate book idea, and the 'collection' one see what I can find. I thought maybe if I typed in the product code thing (SE-#####) maybe something will turn up.
  Thanks yall,
          last rebel

I like that idea Roger, Im leaving for a week this morning but I'll work on it when I get back. Sounds good though
daddy cool, I'm thinking it needs a Johnny Cashish type intro which could use some string bendin.

woops lol, haha thats what I meant, I saw arkady's name when I scrolled down thru the posts and I guess I got confused.....  Srry about that Old Doll don't know where my mind was lol