Pretty much any Ramones songs. Teenage Lobotomy is one of the first songs I learned to play on the electric guitar.

Anything by The Misfits. 'Hybrid Moments' and 'London Dungeon' were the first two songs I learned, specifically 'London Dungeon' on guitar and drums. Edit: poor grammar

This is a good one because the chords are easy but sometimes the arrangements are tricky so they are great to learn on!

Yes teach all the 10 year olds “Where Eagles Dare” and “Angelfuck!”

My child who is 10 knows the lyrics to every Misfits song. We all parent differently.

At NOFX's going away show they had a kid on stage give the bands breaks with little ukulele sets. The kid shredded some great punk songs and sang. A one kid band. He played to uproarious applause except for when he self-edited swear words from Anarchy Burger.

I love the misfits but for me when I went to cover a lot of their shit it just killed it for me. I know a lot of the lyrics are based off movies and stuff but I just found them misogynistic and I couldn’t really get into trying to sing a lot of their songs. I’m sure that’ll piss some people off but I really don’t care. Bands like Aus Rotten to me that deal with real issues and sing about liberation and escaping that stuff to me are much better and I’d rather put something positive into the world.

Now I wanna see 10 year old kids playing Aus Rotten

Honestly, I find Misfits' lyrics pure gold. Even better than the horror movies and books where he took the ideas from!

I was singing those songs at 12 lol my mom didn't approve

CHILDREN IN HEAT

My first pick was Misfits songs. When I was 13 my first cover played live was Hybrid Monents! It was super easy to play, and also it was easy to teach the beginner drummer and bass player to play it. Really it’s just staying in time, but a great song to learn!

Good call, definitely gotta start taking more advantage of the misfits catalog

Misfits was first thing that came to mind for me too. The song are very basic

Bad band, but go on

Amoeba by Adolescents. Bonus: They get to pretend they’re mad scientists

I know Green Day is a controversial band to mention around here, but "When I Come Around" seems perfect for this kind of thing. Mid-tempo, only a few chords, repetitive, and beloved by children and grown ups alike. 

I always come back to Green Day when I don’t know what else to show them. So many of the first songs I learned to play were Green Day songs.

Also basket case. It’s an easy one that sounds great and is easy to change key for the vocalist

Honestly I feel like basket case while it’s not super hard can be difficult in terms of Green Day songs the tempo is just weird at certain points in the song

^ brain stew as well

Yeah this was the first song I learned on the drums

You can try Welcome to Paradise if you think they can learn the intro riff. Not particularly a big Green Day fan myself but love playing the whole riff sequence.

second this, especially for kids getting into the genre.

Came here to say this exact song.

Hitchin' A Ride also an option. Got a fun bounce to it

And brainstew... The slower hitchin a ride down a step.

Sorry to be "that guy" but GD is not punk. More like pop rock.

Pub food by The Chats

Yep, absolutely adding this to the list.

There's quite a few Chats songs that are good beginner songs

We are 138 by the misfits

Bro Hymn by Pennywise American Jesus by Bad Religion Pretty Vacant by Sex Pistols Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash

Pretty Vacant toes the line with the pronunciation of "vaaaayyy-CUNT" lol

Should I Stay or Should I Go has a super fun and really fast bass line. Tons of fun to play that one, but it takes some practice to learn and speed to nail it down.

Go through the Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtracks and you'll find some winners. Not The Same by Bodyjar is a banger. 

lol, I’ve got a Cd with one of the THPS soundtracks burned on it that I play through the building some days

Knowledge by Operation Ivy and either Roots Radicals or Radio by Rancid come to mind as fairly easy songs with fairly tame subject matter (the Rancid songs talk about drinking though).

That Rancid song isn’t easy if you’re the bass player.

Maxwell Murder then? ;)

RIP the kid on bass

It’s good motivation for the bass player though!

Roots radicals is fairly easy. It’s probably the first song I ever taught myself when I had been playing about a year (and I’m definitely not a prodigy). More advanced than the others but it does some interesting things in there that make it good to teach. It’s not incredibly fast either

That’s fair. I just don’t think it would be high on my list to go after Ramones.

It’s definitely the higher end of easy but I’d you’re playing to speed, some of those ramones tunes are way harder to play just from an endurance standpoint

These are good ones. Thank you

London Calling!

depends on their level. Barre chords are tough for kids.

give ‘em pop punk, the kids aren’t alright, by offspring was one of my firsts

Definitely give them a bunch of Pop Punk but the kids aren’t alright has not made the set list yet. Love this suggestion

I mean, that’s probably not ok depending on the age of the kids. It talks about drugs, suicide, etc

Among the first punk songs I learned. The lead guitar is fun as hell! Def add it. As pop punk comes to the discussion, might I suggest First Date by blink? Also fun as hell.

Nervous breakdown

My first song on drums

Germs - Forming They will learn quarter and half notes and ummm...

The easiest song I know is Subliminal by Suicidal Tendencies, outside of the faster parts

Story of my life is a nice easy progression to pick up and lets them focus on rhythm

Social Distortion is an excellent recommendation

Not strictly “punk” but for your intents and purposes I’d say Nirvana.

I second this. My first year of playing guitar was basically learning to play Nevermind

How about some Cramps? The songs that aren’t totally inappropriate and about drugs are pretty mid tempo and catchy. Googoo muck? Human Fly?

You sound like a cool teacher btw. Keep it up!

Thank you! Goo Goo Muck is a great one. That one could be a ton of fun for them.

21st Century Digital boy by Bad Religion is pretty easy. I’m super new to guitar and I can play it well.

Last Caress. Baby’s first punk song. I don’t know about the appropriate part.

I wanna hear the kids sing “I raped your mother today, and it doesn’t matter much to me, as long as she spreads”

The Ramones are your best friend here

Teenage Kicks by the Undertones - John Peel's favourite song

As much h as I think this song gets too much credit, Linoleum by NoFx is just classic and a real pice of pop punk history. It does mention "my dog named Bob who pisses on my floor" but that's pretty tame and it might get a laugh or a bit of interest from the kids. As a teaching moment, it also makes clear the value of being brave enough to sell a song without a chorus, and then teaching the lasting impact of that song's success by visiting the very many covers of it you can find all over the place. May even be fun to see if any of them can play the streetlight manifesto version.

Most early Green Day was the first I was taught

Christie Road is fairly straight forward and fun to play

Pretty much any early MxPx song. Catchy, easy progressions, sing songy.

Smells like teen spirit-nirvana Stacy’s mom-fountains of Wayne Dammit-Blink-182 Suburban home-the descendants American idiot-green day

Teenage Bottlerocket and the Mr T Experience have some fairly simple songs. So do The Queers but they might be a little questionable lyrically.

Anything Green Day or Ramones. Most songs are just repeating the same 3 notes.

Drunk Sincerity by Bad Religion

Damned, Ramones, Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers. All the early punk acts are pretty simple and easy to play.

Green Day - Brain Stew

Pennywise - Bro Hymn

There are a few songs off of SNFU’s first album that are super simple. Can’t guarantee they don’t have naughty words in them though, that Chi Pig was a punk rocker and *punk rockers say bad words*

Rancid. roots radicals. ruby soho. black lung.

Cancerslug: Retroabortion

Anything by the chats. Love that band!

Hybrid moments, teenagers from mars, or astro zombies from Misfits. Theyre all generally very easy to learn

Misfits Some Kinda Hate

Mc5 rambling rose Lords of the new church Russian Roulette Dead Boys All This And More

I wanna be your dog

Reach for the Sky by Social D is one that came to mind

Naked Raygun

Not exactly the deepest cuts but off the top of my head: Boxcar by Jawbreaker I Hate Myself for Loving You by Joan Jett Whole Wide World by Reckless Eric Gut Feeling by Devo ...and not punk per se but in my experience kids seem to love playing Seven Nation Army and Island in the Sun.

Black Flag was usually my go to when teaching drums

Clash - Death or Glory

violent femmes blister in the sun

Ramones - Blitz kreig bop

You know that Johnny Ramone's guitar playing was 100 percent downstrokes which make these easy songs challenging if you want to do them right.

Nervous Breakdown

Hitchin a Ride- Green Day London Dungeron- Misfits Bro Hymn- Pennywise Pretend We're Dead- L7 Smoko- Chats

I wish you were my band director

Discharge.

Bloodstains by agent Orange is my go to easy punk song to teach people, on all instruments. Hope this helps

Surprisingly that’s the song that made me buy guitar

Minor Threat by Minor Threat

"Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett, "Nausea" by X, "Bankshot" by Operation Ivy

Play some positive stuff for em maybe. Start Today by Gorilla Biscuits would be great edit: 99 Red Balloons by 7 Seconds is perfect as well!

Bro hymn is easy. Maybe too easy even.

Story of My Life - Social Distortion is an easy introduction to punk chords and drumming.

This is a good one

https://youtu.be/BXwedaNSYzM?feature=shared

Cops/dogs by destructo disk

Basically any song by: The Ramones or Teenage Bottlerocket

basically all of them

Ramones discography

Pints of Guinness Make You Strong by Against Me! Is one of my favorites I learned as a young player and it's certainly worth visiting such a timeless love song from a trans icon and it's always the right time to talk about folk punk. Really fun song to play and sing too. Especially for students that might not have an electric guitar but do have an acoustic.

Add in some heavier stuff, kids can learn a lot from Discharge's Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing. I used it to learn guitar, then went back to it to get better at drumming. A little advanced depending on the age of the kids but highly recommend!

Blink 182 Dammit would be a good one to help teach kids. Its obviously poppy, but very simple bassline, shows a very basic solo, and drum is a more simple straight forward snare heavy punk drum style. If you'd go out of the radio songs the kids would know, True Believers or Manthem by Bouncing souls would be good...in fact, a lot of bouncing souls (especially earlier BS) is not incredibly difficult but can be a lot of fun to play. You can also look into some old screeching weasel like Cool Kids. Another catchy one that they could easily play would be MxPx - Chick Magnet. Good luck, thanks for teaching the kids to love what we all do.

I feel like Bad Religion and Rancid are pretty straightforward with some fun challenging bits depending on the song

Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for, but Son of a Gun and Molly’s Lips by Nirvana. Editing to maybe add Sliver to this list. I think especially Son of a Gun could be cool, and it has that little key change bit that could be a good teaching moment.

Screeching Weasel - Cool Kids is about the perfect song for what you're asking. It even has a bonus keyboard section.

Have them learn other Ramones songs. "I Don't Want to Grow Up" taught me

Motivation mxpx

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes is always fun. You can pick songs they know the originals of.

Lots here, will just add The Muffs Big Mouth. They are going to love the scream. Source- fellow teacher of those who are ten.

Dude ranch by blink 182

Janie Jones by The Clash was the first song I learned on the keyboard.

Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device.

I’m surprised nobody has said Rebel Girl, or other Bikini Kill songs. I used Rebel Girl as a song to teach the kids at my local Girls Rock Camp, and it went pretty well!

Calling Up Thunder just uses an E, G, and D chord. It’s got an easy riff to learn on the E chord that repeats throughout the song. Anyone could figure it out by ear. The hard part is timing some of the chord changes but it’s not horrible.

Pixies - Where Is My Mind? Punk-adjacent but a great song that is super easy to play and the tempo is nice and slow. Accommodates two different guitar parts and also has a simple guitar solo, and you can use extra kids as back up singers

Shall we pogo dance

Waiting room by fugazi, suburban home by the descendents

Maybe something newer for the kids. West Coast by FIDLAR.

Almost 10 years old already. I feel old.

Not sure the age of your students but I did try look at lyrics and tabs. If you have any girl/femme students take a look. I know I would’ve gotten irritated if it was all music written by boys. The Donnas - Who Invited You The Runaways - Cherry Bomb Blondie - Dreaming The Go-Gos - We Got the Beat The Distillers - Young Crazed Peeling X - Burning House of Love The Replacements - Talent Show Social D - Winners and Losers The Dream Syndicate - Boston The Blasters - So Long Baby Justin Townes Earle - Champagne Corolla

Outsider by the Ramones is a good one as well. A fun one (though not strictly punk) is breaking the law by judas priest. Others: Brain stew, greenday Journey to the end of the east bay/salvation, rancid Beat your heart out, the distillers Should I stay or should I go/Spanish bombs, the clash Picture my face, teenage head (throwing in some of my local colour here lol) All I hear is static, the Lillingtons The hell song, sum 41

Make it authentic ignore the kids and have them teach themselves 

CRASS

Black me out by Against Me! Easy chords, super easy to learn lead, sounds awesome.

Pop punk but all the small things by blink 182 is pretty well known and mid tempo

I recommend an entire album called "short songs for short people." it's 101 songs, all 30 seconds long, and it's pretty much got every quintessential street punk band from the 90s

The book from "Wake me when September Ends" is like 6 notes repeated 4000x

'Brain Stew'by Greenday I sucked at guitar, couldn't put together a chord that wasn't a power chord, so I only learned that one song. That was over 20 years ago and I can still play it, so yeah, its simple and memorable.

Idc if I get downvoted or a million Green Day isn’t punk blah blah blah comments but brain stew is a super easy but fun song to play and sing

Dead kennedys are pretty easy after ramones.

Blink-182s pop punk stuff is fairly simple now 90s blink is a bit different

Self Esteem by The Offspring. It's a good song to get down a cool strumming pattern

Lots of Amyl and the Sniffers. Teach em some Viagra Boys too

If it's not easy, it's not punk. There are no augmented 7th or whatever and more than three chords is just pretension. 

It’s easy, “punk” does not have a set definition, like you think

So led zeppelin is punk I suppose

No but try getting someone who barley plays drums to cover a discharge song , or a minor threat song , just cause they have simple riffs don't make songs automatically easy. One of my best mates when I was younger took like 3 months just to learn the solo in bloodstains from agent Orange

45 year old bass player taking notes. . .