Geoffrey Claremont Parsons was a lyricist.

He worked at the Peter Maurice Music Company run by James Phillips, who wrote under the pseudonym John Turner. The company specialized in adapting songs originally in foreign languages into the English language. Phillips would usually assign a song to Parsons and when the latter was finished, suggest some changes. The credits for the English lyrics would then be given as "John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons." A pseudonym is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Lyrics credited to Parsons alone

• "If You Love Me (Really Love Me)"
• "La Seine"

Lyrics credited to Turner and Parsons

• "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart."
• "Mama."
• "Oh! My Pa-Pa," based on the German language song "O Mein Papa," by Paul Burkhard.
• "Smile."

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Lyrics credited to Turner, Parsons, and another collaborator

• "The Little Shoemaker," based on the French language song "Le petit cordonnier," with Nathan Korb.